"In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness."

-- Alex Haley

#Loneliness Quotes #Adoption Quotes #Who We Are Quotes

“How can you give a man a room in a house and not let him come through the front door?”
“everything is ambiguous. It's exciting, in a way, if you can tolerate ambiguity. I can't, but I'm taking a course where it's taught, in the hope of acquiring the skill. It's called Modern Living, and you get no credit.”

Source : Sheila Ballantyne (1975). “Norma Jean, the termite queen”, Doubleday Books
“It is the brave man's part to live with glory, or with glory die.”
“Among many reasons for being stupid it may be urged, it is being like other people, and living like one's neighbours, and indeed without it, it may be difficult to love some neighbours as oneself: now seeing the necessity of being dull, you won't, I hope, take it amiss that you find me so ...”
“My heart always belongs to the one who doesn't want it.”
“Why, a moral truth is a hollow tooth Which must be propped with gold.”
“The public can only be really moved by what is genuine.”
“My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was doing, and I wanted to do surgery.”

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