"Young people...have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing--not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness--so disillusions a youth about her parents as the seemingly inhumane way they treat her grandparents."

-- Louise J. Kaplan

#Pride Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Elderly Quotes

“I went out into the woods for a few days. I just disconnected from everything and allowed myself to be free and be human. Because, that's what makes you really good, if you can be vulnerable, if you can be vulnerable on stage.”
“Diapers do not belong on the same table as food.”
“love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel.”
“If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world.”

Source : Aleksandar Hemon (2008). “The Lazarus Project”, p.125, Penguin
“He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.”
“Did you ever hear Of the frolic fairies dear? They're a blessed little race, Peeping up in fancy's face, In the valley, on the hill, By the fountain and the rill; Laughing out between the leaves That the loving summer weaves.”
“It is the great beauty of true religion that it shall be universal, and a departure in any instance from universality is a corruption of religion itself.”
“Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.”

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