"One of the qualities essential to being good at reading poetry is also one of the qualities essential to being good at life: a capacity for surprise. Itâ€™s easy to become so mired in our likes or dislikes that we can no longer recall that person who once responded to poemsâ€”and to peopleâ€”without any preconceived notions of what we wanted them to be."

-- Christian Wiman

#Reading Quotes #People Quotes #Quality Quotes

“It's dangerous faith in our untamed Savior that leads us to the joy we crave.”
“What do the 5%, or the 1% actually use their money for? They lend it back to the economy at large, they load it down with debt. They make their money by lending to the bottom 95%, or the bottom 99%. When you give them more after-tax income, it enables them to buy even more control of government, even more control of election campaigns. They're not going to spend this money back into the goods-and-services economy.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.”
“Big breakthrough ideas often seem nuts the first time you see them.”
“The higher our self-esteem, the stronger the drive to express ourselves, reflecting the sense of richness within. The lower our self-esteem, the more urgent the need to "prove" ourselves or to forget ourselves by living mechanically and unconsciously.”
“Many Americans think of the rest of the world as a kind of Disneyland, a showplace for quaint fauna, flora and artifacts. They dress for travel in cheap, comfortable, childish clothes, as if they were going to the zoo and would not be seen by anyone except the animals.”
“For black people, being around white people is sometimes like taking care of babies you don't like, babies who throw up on you again and again, but whom you cannot punish, because they're babies.”

Source : Hilton Als (2013). “White Girls”, p.224, McSweeney's
“The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ.”

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