"I honestly think people are tired of reading about me."

-- Jim Edmonds

#Reading Quotes #Tired Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Every brand of religion maintains, and is, a permanent mechanism for transmitting ideas and values - whether one regards those values as admirable or ridiculous. Secularist organizations, with their generally looser, nonhierarchical structures, lack the power to hand down and disseminate their heritage in such a systematic way.”
“Early success is a terrible teacher. You're essentially being rewarded for a lack of preparation, so when you find yourself in a situation where you must prepare, you can't do it. You don't know how.”
“I think so much of my early life, even though I grew up White and middle class, I was completely shattered by the horrifically violent atmosphere I grew up in. I am a consequence of violence. That opened a door to many realities that I would not have experienced had I not survived what I did.”
“Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.”
“If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”

Source : "Life of Pi". Book by Yann Martel, September 11, 2001.
“Injuries too well remembered cannot heal.”

Source : Benjamin Barber (2001). “Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy”, Ballantine Books
“Like vanishing dew, a passing apparition or the sudden flash of lightning -- already gone -- thus should one regard one's self.”
“I like old tunes when I'm driving. They're fun and uplifting. Billy Ocean, that kind of thing.”

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