Quotes
Authors
Jonathan Safran Foer

"I asked my schoolmate Mary to write a letter to me. She was funny and full of life. She liked to run around her empty house without any clothes on, even once she was too old for that. Nothing embarrassed her. I admired that so much, because everything embarrassed me, and that hurt me. She loved to jump on her bed. She jumped on her bed for so many years that one afternoon, while I watched her jump, the seams burst. Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasnâ€™t someone, somewhere, laughing?"

-- Jonathan Safran Foer

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“[The photograph is] still a space to reorganize our thoughts about reality and our place in the world. How do you disentangle the surface of reality?”
“It's not that I'm a Type-B personality. It's that I'm driven by a passionate, all-consuming desire to take it easy.”
“Hard-earned achievement brings a sense of self-worth. Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God. A consecrated life is filled with work, sometimes repetitive, sometimes menial, sometimes unappreciated but always work that improves, orders, sustains, lifts, ministers, aspires.”
“The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property.”
“We complain today that ministers do not know how to preach; but is it not equally true that our congregations do not know how to hear?”
“It's perhaps not so much how your amygdala is tuned that makes you politically extreme, but that your intrinsic nervousness makes you more responsive to things that might seem to threaten your particular social world. Education probably plays an important role in dampening that response by allowing the brain's frontal lobes (where much of the brain's conscious work goes on) to counteract the emotional responses with a more considered view, so explaining why education is invariably the friend of liberal politics.”

Source : Robin Dunbar (2011). “How Many Friends Does One Person Need? Dunbar’s Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks”, p.170, Harvard University Press
“Oh, if only you knew yourselves! You are souls; you are Gods. If ever I feel like blaspheming, it is when I call you man.”
“You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.”

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