"We cheat ourselves in order to enjoy a calm conscience without possessing virtue."

“Her heart was heavy because it was open, and so things filled it, and so things rushed out of it, but still the heart kept beating, tough and frighteningly powerful and meaning to shrug off the rest of her and continue on its own.”

Source : Helen Oyeyemi (2011). “Mr Fox”, p.171, Pan Macmillan

“But who, except God, can say whether a man is right or foolish if he follows the call of his conscience?”

“Each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other-male in female, female in male, white in black, and black in white. We are part of each other. Many of my countrymen appear to find this fact exceedingly inconvenient and even unfair, and so, very often, do I. But none of us can do anything about it.”

“And it struck me then, that I liked Sean because he looked, well, slutty. A boy who had been around. A boy who couldn't remember if he was Catholic or not.”

“Let's get put in place a better health care system the American people deserve.”

Source : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

“Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.”

“There’s never a moment in all our lives, from the day we trusted Christ till the day we see Him, when God is not longing to bless us. At every moment, in every circumstance, God is doing us good. He never stops. It gives Him too much pleasure. God is not waiting to bless us after our troubles end. He is blessing us right now, in and through those troubles. At this exact moment, He is giving us what He thinks is good.”

“Reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival.”

Source : Richard Louv (2012). “The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age”, p.3, Algonquin Books