"No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue."

-- Theodore Parker

#Long Quotes #Hopeful Quotes #Despair Quotes

“It's true that a dangerous combination of certainty and ignorance often shows up around sex and consent on campus. People on all sides of the issue have such strong feelings about it that they're blinded to the facts.”
“The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.”
“It's not difficult for me to stay healthy. I like healthy food.”
“In L.A. everyone is in the entertainment industry, so you're forced to think about work.”
“Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic”
“The view after seventy is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want to satisfy your curiosity about some detail of the landscape of the past. There is no longer any older generation. You have become it, while your mind was mostly on other matters”

Source : William Maxwell (2013). “All the Days and Nights: The Collected Stories”, p.357, Vintage
“The liberating encounter with God/ess is always an encounter with our authentic selves resurrected from underneath the alienated self. It is not experienced against, but in and through relationships, healing our broken relations with our bodies, with other people, with nature.”
“As a kid, I thought of myself as a funny person who secretly wanted to be serious, but now I think maybe I'm a serious person who secretly wants to be funny.”

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