"Carry religious principles into common life, and common life will lose its transitoriness. The world passes away. The things seen are temporal. Soon business, with all its cares and anxieties, the whole "unprofitable stir and fever of the world" will be to us a thing of the past. But religion does something better than sigh and moan over the perishableness of earthly things. It finds in them the seeds of immortality."

-- John Caird

#Religious Quotes #Past Quotes #Anxiety Quotes

“At night, in the garden, it occurs to you that it might have been your heart that left you as you reached the capital. Your heart might not have travelled well, closed up in its cavity, quivering and gnawing at the bars of your ribcage during the commute. It might be tracking north now, along edgelands, past spoil-heaps and stands of pylons, under motorway passes, back to the higher ground. Back to him.”
“After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used.”
“the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute”
“Boards of public charity were invented by the devil to prevent real individual charity.”
“White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.”

Source : "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" by Peggy McIntosh, first appeared in Peace and Freedom Magazine (Philadelphia, PA), pp. 10-12, July/August 1989; later quoted in Thomas Norman DeWolf "Inheriting the Trade" (Chapter 4: The Great Folks), www.pbs.org. January 2, 2008.
“Nothing would more effectively further the development of education than for all flogging pedagogues to learn to educate with the head instead of with the hand.”

Source : Ellen Key (2016). “The education of the child”, p.20, Ellen Key
“Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.”
“I think astrology is annoying bullshit-which is so Libra of me”

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