"people are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives"

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Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times Magazine, 9 May 1993

Helen Prejean

#People Quotes #Done Quotes #Worst Quotes

“Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that's only a recent development.”
“By arts, sails, and oars, ships are rapidly moved; arts move the light chariot, and establish love. [Lat., Arte citae veloque rates remoque moventur; Arte levis currus, arte regendus Amor.]”
“When The Phenoix Suns are missing two basketballs, they'll know where to look!”
“A thought-form held in thinking substance is a reality; it is a real thing, whether it has yet become visible to mortal eye or not.”
“Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful, and they will certainly not shield us from the common fate of the grave. But books grant us myriad possibilities: the possibility of change, the possibility of illumination.”
“I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.”

Source : Rabih Alameddine (2015). “Koolaids”, p.146, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Unlike a lot of people, I don't feel powerless. I know I can do something. But anyone can do something, it's not about being special. It's about deciding to do it - to dive into work for peace and justice and care for everybody on the planet.”
“People did change, and a change could be a bloom as well as a withering...”

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