"Sometimes love is a wound that opens and closes, opens and closes, all our lives."

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Source : Claire Vaye Watkins (2012). “Battleborn”, p.28, Granta Books

Claire Vaye Watkins

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“A nation that will not enforce its laws has no claim to the respect and allegiance of its people.”

Source : Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2272, Delphi Classics
“We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can't relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, unbiased.”
“I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.”
“And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.”
“When I look to my guiltiness, I see that my salvation is one of our Saviour's greatest miracles, either in heaven or earth.”
“We ask [ of the computer ] not just about where we stand in nature, but about where we stand in the world of artefact. We search for a link between who we are and what we have made, between who we are and what we might create, between who we are and what, through our intimacy with our own creations, we might become.”
“Flourishing goes beyond happiness, or satisfaction with life. True, people who flourish are happy. But that's not the half of it. Beyond feeling good, they're also doing good-adding value to the world.”

Source : Barbara Fredrickson (2009). “Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the Upward Spiral That Will Change Your Life”, p.17, Harmony
“Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.”

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