"How much better if life were more like books, if life lied a little more, and gave up its stubborn and boring adherence to the way things can be, and thought a little more imaginatively about the way things might be."

-- Catherynne M. Valente

#Book Quotes #Might Quotes #Adherence Quotes

“Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole.”
“Sometimes what appears to be a setback is God's mode of elevation.”
“I would not, if I could, give up the memory of the joy I have had in books for any advantage that could be offered in other pursuits or occupations. Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.”
“You're trying to figure out a way to go back in time and spend more time with your father. Who wouldn't want to do that?”
“An educational foundation is only part of the equation. In order for creativity to flourish and imagination to take hold, we also need to expose our children to the arts from a very young age.”
“For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven?”

Source : Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1951). “Oration on the Dignity of Man”
“In America, we believe that our happiness depends on getting breaks, even though being American is already the biggest break we will ever get.”
“Do not resent your place in the story. Do not imagine yourself elsewhere. Do not close your eyes and picture a world without thorns, without shadows, without hawks. Change this world. Use your body like a tool meant to be used up, discarded, and replaced. Better every life you touch. We will reach the final chapter. When we have eyes that can stare into the sun, eyes that only squint for the Shenikah, then we will see laughing children pulling cobras by their tails, and hawks and rabbits playing tag.”

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