"In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed."

-- Germaine Greer

#Home Quotes #Library Quotes #World Quotes

“While preaching against every kind of government, and demanding complete freedom, we must support all struggles for partial freedom, because we are convinced that one learns through struggle,”

Source : Errico Malatesta (2014). “The Method of Freedom: An Errico Malatesta Reader”, p.263, AK Press
“The thing about throwing a fastball is, you want it to be easy, you want it to be effortless.”
“Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that 'if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression', human rights should be protected by the rule of law. That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power.”
“The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ...”

Source : Bruno Bettelheim (1976). “The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales”, Knopf
“I know well that happiness is in little things.”
“You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.”
“I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your longing.”

Source : David Whyte (2009). “The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship”, p.60, Penguin

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