"You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows."

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Source : S.E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.141, Penguin

S. E. Hinton

#Thinking Quotes #Outsiders Quotes #World Quotes

“When the jars of clay remember they are jars of clay, the treasure within gets all the glory, which seems somehow more fitting.”

Source : Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.53, B&H Publishing Group
“I knew that I was learning one of the most important lessons of my life: that instead of waiting for the perfect opportunity, I should work toward a realization that every opportunity is perfect.”
“It's phenomenally important to me that, if I'm going to be spending years on a project, I need to be interested in the whole thing. I'm not there to be on my own. And if I'm going to be with these people, I'd best be interested in their work.”
“I was under the influence of the early modern masters, Fitzgerald and Steinbeck and Hemingway, especially, when I was a kid. I reacted against writers like Barth and John Hawkes. I did not care for the post-modernist stuff; my allegiance was to realism.”
“What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.”
“I'll change the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that embraces science and technology.”
“To theology, ... only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.”

Source : Ludwig Feuerbach (1967). “Lectures on the essence of religion”
“Having respect for animals makes us better humans..”

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