"I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive."

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Source : "Give me a reasonable believer over an uncompromising atheist any day" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2012.

Julian Baggini

#Thinking Quotes #Charity Quotes #Modesty Quotes

“To separate journalism and poetry, therefore-history and poetry-to set them up at opposite ends of the world of discourse, is to separate seeing from the feel of seeing, emotion from the acting of emotion, knowledge from the realization of knowledge.”
“I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.”

Source : "Le Cid". Tragicomedy by Pierre Corneille (Act II, Scene I), December 1636.
“My wife and I battle over home decor. My style goes from Gothic to Baroque. Hers is minimalist.”
“Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.”
“Get out there and do what you love!”
“But then, gifts are like beauty, are they not. It is in the eye of the recipient that they find their seat, not in the hand of the giver.”
“What do you think it is to be normal?' Why in the world would you want to be?' she says. I don't know. I guess that's the problem.' I don't think normal is that great.' But so many people choose it,' I reply. I don't think that's it at all. I think most everyone is normal and some of us, for whatever reason, choose to reject that and wear ruby red slippers or old black hats.' Well, why do we choose the hard road?”

Source : Patrick Jones (2007). “Nailed”, p.87, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them.”

Source : Dorothy Day (2012). “All the Way to Heaven: The Selected Letters of Dorothy Day”, p.326, Image

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