"Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing."

-- Tobias Wolff

#Teaching Quotes #Writing Quotes #People Quotes

“A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.”
“Everyone needs a touch.”

Source : Song: Touch, Album: Come Closer, 2006
“Feel free to change. When you discover something true about yourself, put it in action regardless of who you were yesterday.”
“Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims”
“Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.”
“These are the things I prize And hold of dearest worth: Light of the sapphire skies, Peace of the silent hills, Shelter of the forests, comfort of the grass, Music of birds, murmur of little rills, Shadows of cloud that swiftly pass, And, after showers, The smell of flowers And of the good brown earth,- And best of all, along the way, friendship and mirth.”
“'Christian' used to be a throwaway word. People didn't used to use it much. People didn't start self-labeling or getting labeled Christian until the last part of the 20th century. Before that, you might identify as a Baptist, or a Southern Baptist or a Methodist. But there wasn't one identifier that put you in a fold with all the other believers.”
“I understand regicide as a means of obtaining vengeance for the ruin of our lives, but regicide as a means of obtaining political freedom I could never understand.”

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