"Being a good human being is very easy: Be a good son, a good husband, a good parent and a good citizen."

-- Siddharth Katragadda

#Husband Quotes #Son Quotes #Parent Quotes

“We can't slow up because of our love for democracy and our love for America.Â Someone should tell Faulkner that the vast majority of the people on this globe are colored.”
“The goal is not to be better than anyone else but rather be better than you were yesterday.”
“Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.”
“Criticism of growth arose with the discovery that growth beyond a certain point is destructive of the earth. We are already using resources much faster than they can be replenished. We are producing wastes much faster than nature's sinks can process them. The growth economy will end. The only questions are when its end will come, and whether humanity will be able to survive its demise.”

Source : John B. Cobb (1994). “Sustaining the Common Good: A Christian Perspective on the Global Economy”
“Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can't believe that ours didn't go on forever.”
“Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.”
“To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdalaâ€â€”the home of the fight-or-flight reflexâ€”â€œis as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is reducible to the molecules that make up my brain cells or to the genes that underwrote them,”

Source : "The Prisoner of Stress" by Louis Menand, www.newyorker.com. January 27, 2014.
“I had a very hard father. I had two sisters. He was soft on them and hard on me.”

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