"One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed to him on every countenance by curiosity, indifference, aversion, or pity, and in so far as he is human enough to need free and equal communication and feel the lack of it, he suffers pain and loss of a kind and degree which others can only faintly imagine, and for the most part ignore."

-- Charles Horton Cooley

#Pain Quotes #Communication Quotes #Loss Quotes

“That is part of why we must keep talking about Fannie Lou Hamer and about our history as a party and as a nation. We can't forget. If we forget, we can get self-righteous. We are great, but we had to grow into that greatness. Let's not forget that we shut people out.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?”

Source : Simone Weil (1973). “Waiting for God”
“I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.”
“A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.”

Source : Italo Calvino (2014). “Why Read the Classics?”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.”
“When you think small and up the middle, good things happen.”
“I doubt that more than two percent of professing Christians in the United States are truly born again.”
“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”

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