"Tragedies do happen. We can discover the reason, blame others, imagine how different our lives would be had they not occurred. But none of that is important: they did occur, and so be it. From there onward we must put aside the fear that they awoke in us and begin to rebuild"

-- Paulo Coelho

#Life Quotes #Important Quotes #Tragedy Quotes

“Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.”
“We must leave these beginnings, beings, believings- man, what are you growing?”

Source : Harry Hooton (1961). “It is Great to be Alive”
“The Jew is neither a newcomer nor an alien in this country or on this continent; his Americanism is as original and ancient as that of any race or people with the exception of the American Indian and other aborigines. He came in the caravels of Columbus, and he knocked at the gates of New Amsterdam only thirty-five years after the Pilgrim Fathers stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock.”

Source : Oscar Solomon Straus (1913). “The American Spirit”
“To a new generation of butterflies, hopefully less stupid than last. Maybe they were burgeoning even now in fat little cocoons. Or maybe not.”
“For years, we in publishing have been hearing from Catholic readers that they really yearn for Catholic fiction.”
“When I was a kid I was really into horror films. I watched every single horror film that came out in the 80s.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“It's a wonderful world when you have what you want at all times.”
“I don't agree with a core statement by most feminists, the statement by Simone de Beauvoir: "One is not born a woman, one becomes one." Even as a schoolgirl I wasn't convinced by the claim that gender has nothing to do with biology and is only shaped by one's environment.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

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