"I also don't believe that whatever come after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions-that sounds too much like an Erudite afterlife to me, all accuracy and no feeling."

-- Veronica Roth

#Life Quotes #Believe Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Traveling with a big band is like being an inmate in a traveling zoo.”

Source : Hoagy Carmichael, Stephen Longstreet (1999). “The Stardust Road & Sometimes I Wonder: The Autobiography of Hoagy Carmichael”
“There needs to be a homemaker exercising some measure of skill, imagination, creativity, desire to fulfill needs and give pleasure to others in the family. How precious a thing is the human family. It it not worth some sacrifice in time, energy, safety, discomfort, work? Does anything come forth without work?”

Source : "What Is a Family?". Book by Edith Schaeffer, www.nytimes.com. 1975.
“Ah, but depression - that is what we all hate. We the afflicted. Whereas the relatives and shrinks, the tribal ring, they rather welcome it: you are quiet and you suffer.”
“Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.”
“Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.”
“Life isn't that sweet. That's why everyone wants sweet things.”
“America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us.”
“Suffering ignites the spark of contact with the sublime and offers proof of humanity ...”

Source : Lydia Millet (2005). “Oh Pure and Radiant Heart”, p.214, Soft Skull Press

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