Quotes
Authors
Wendell Berry

"Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how commonly attainable, health is. We lose our health -- and create profitable diseases and dependencies -- by failing to see the direct connections between living and eating, eating and working, working and loving."

Source : "The Art of the Commonplace". Book by Wendell Berry, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2002.

Wendell Berry

#Broken Quotes #Doe Quotes #Disease Quotes

“A Corpse or a Ghost- I'd sooner be one or t'other, square and fair, than a Ghost in a Corpse, which is my feelins at present.”

Source : William Frend De Morgan (1906). “Joseph Vance: An Ill-written Autobiography”, H. Frowde
“Every country that aspires to become a nation needs its heroes, its eminent civic and moral leaders, and if it doesn't have them, it's our duty to invent them.”

Source : Rosario Ferré (1996). “Sweet Diamond Dust: And Other Stories”, Plume Books
“What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.”
“We are often moved with passion and think it to be zeal.”
“Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias.”
“I am the outcast come home to roost and the eggs of tomorrow are incubating in my fame. You hate me, you love me, you made me, and now I am in you. I am like that disease brewing in your loins and I think you like itâ€¦”
“I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather than what I want to be doing.”
“In international or national crises, there are always questions of lack of confidence. You have to change the minds of the people in order to get results.”

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