"We feel much happier and more secure when we think we know precisely what to do, no matter what happens, then when we have lost our way and do not know where to turn."

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Source : William Kingdon Clifford (1886). “Lectures and Essays”

William Kingdon Clifford

#Thinking Quotes #Matter Quotes #Way Quotes

“Mothering has been the richest experience of my life, but I am still opposed to Mother's Day. It perpetuates the dangerous idea that all parents are somehow superior to non-parents.”
“Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.”
“The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in the twentieth century that was not foreshadowed or even advocated by some noble man of words in the nineteenth.”
“old grudges and bitterness always hurt the individual more than the one whom he believes injured him.”

Source : Elizabeth Chandler (2010). “Dark Secrets: No Time to Die & The Deep End of Fear”, p.105, Simon and Schuster
“I want you to love me. I want you to trust me enough to let me love you, and I want you to stay here with me so we can build a life together. That's what I want”

Source : Francine Rivers (2013). “Redeeming Love”, p.139, Lion Fiction
“When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.”
“If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself.”
“Journalism classes teach us that one must extract oneself from the story in order to report without bias, but often we need to be in the story in order to understand, to connect, to help the audience identify or else it has no heart; it could be a robot telling the story, for all anyone cares.”

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