"I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though some principle of being abides, from which I struggle not to stray."

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Source : Stanley Kunitz, “The Layers”

Stanley Kunitz

#Struggle Quotes #Principles Quotes

“God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.”
“All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.”
“It's easy to love the snow because at the end of every snowstorm it's as if the world has started over. There is no dirt, no footprints, just a layer of seamless, indiscriminate nature connecting everything to everything else. Isn't that the amazing thing about the natural world? You can tear it down, you can drill holes in it, you can ignore its power with all your might, but one morning you wake up and it has selflessly given despite all of our abuse. I think I'll make a snowman.”
“Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill.”
“I have broken the blue boundary of color limits, come out into the white; beside me comrade-pilots swim in this infinity.”
“Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.”
“The most intense patriotism always flourishes in the rear.”
“One does not export democracy in an armored vehicle.”

Source : Attributed to Jacques Chirac speaking to Silvio Berlusconi over the invasion of Iraq in 2003, 20 o'clock news, TF1, March 11, 2007.

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