"A five-year old is in a pretty good position to assess who is beautiful and who is not. Removed from the confusions of sexuality, he or she can judge a face as a face."

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Source : Roger Rosenblatt (1994). “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”, Random House

Roger Rosenblatt

#Beauty Quotes #Beautiful Quotes #Years Quotes

“Education will equip you to do something worthwhile in the great world of opportunity that lies ahead.”
“The less self-conscious you are about what you are about, the better in a way, that is to say technically. You have to get it in your blood, not in the head.”
“The sacred page is not meant to be the end, but only the means toward the end, which is knowing God Himself.”
“Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.”
“From the place by the railing at the edge of the tracks on the summer evening I return across the city to my own room. I am vividly aware of my own life that escaped the winter on the boat. How many such lives I have lived. Then I only made a dollar and a half a day and now I sometimes make more than that in a few minutes. How wonderful to be able to write words. ... Again I begin the endless game of reconstructing my own life, jerking it out of the shell that dies, striving to breathe into it beauty and meaning. ... I wonder why my life, why all lives, are not more beautiful.”
“Sometimes funerals can be good. It reunites you with your cousins you haven't seen in a while.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 26, 2014
“The more I sought truth uncorrupted by years of religious history, the more I kept finding answers I didnâ€™t want to find. Emotionally, it would have been easiest for me to just hold on to what I grew up believing, but mentally that wasnâ€™t an option anymore.”
“I have felt an urgency to counsel each of us to seek the higher ground---the refuge and eternal protection of the temple.”

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