"The thing you are ripening toward is the fruit of your life. It will make you bright inside, no matter what you are outside. It is a shining thing."

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Source : Stewart Edward White, Elizabeth Calvert Grant White (1947). “With folded wings”

Stewart Edward White

#Shining Quotes #Matter Quotes #Fruit Quotes

“Unacceptable Levels is Powerful. Â It tells the story of toxic chemicals in just about every aspect of our lives, and the egregious lack of regulation. Â Our ability to protect our families is at stake.”
“I wanted to think about ways to get an American readership concerned with what is happening in Mexico, but also to reframe it as a problem Americans share.”
“Morality is essentially a suite of psychological mechanisms that enable us to cooperate. But, biologically at least, we only evolved to cooperate in a tribal way. Individuals who were more cooperative with those around them - could outcompete others who were not. However, we have the capacity to take a step back from this and ask what a more global morality would look like. Why are the lives of people on the other side of the world worth any less than those in my immediate community? Going through that reasoning process can allow our moral thinking to do something it never evolved to.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“What difference does it make?”
“Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.”

Source : J. M. Coetzee (1980). “Waiting for the Barbarians”, Penguin Group USA
“Often intuition will direct you. If it feels right, it's probably right.”
“We do share with my mother what I would refer to as an anxiety gene. And I think it is genetic, that I worry about everything. Not every day, I don't want to say it like that, but I do worry a lot about - what was the line I heard the other day, when I was saying to a girlfriend of mine that I worry? She says, "Yes, I spent my whole life worrying - and some of the things actually came true."”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“I don't think I'm very cool as a person. I'm just better than anyone else at acting cool.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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