"Because I am all too human, I don't always do the right thing, so how can I expect others to perform perfectly on the issues that are my top priority? I don't mean that we shouldn't try to do our best, but judgment and recrimination are such heavy weights. I find that accepting that we are all fallible lightens my load."

-- Karen Dawn

#Mean Quotes #Issues Quotes #Priorities Quotes

“If you make someone feel guilty about their mistake, then you have not forgiven them. That guilt is itself punishment.”
“It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.”
“So, friends, every day do something that won't compute...Give your approval to all you cannot understand...Ask the questions that have no answers. Put your faith in two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years...Laugh. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts....Practice resurrection.”

Source : Wendell Berry, “Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front”
“I used to psych myself up before the show and now I do the complete opposite: I psych myself down. It's 12:30 at night, you don't want some guy yelling at you. You want some guy just talking to you.”
“The sea and wind can at the same time convey my neighbour's vessel and my own.”
“I have a sixth sense, but not the other five. If I wasn't making money, they'd put me away.”
“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.”
“I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.”

Source : William Stafford, Paul Merchant, Vincent Wixon (1998). “Crossing unmarked snow: further views on the writer's vocation”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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