"When he was young, he had thought love had something to do with understanding, but with age he knew that no human being understood another. Love was the wish to understand, and presently with constant failure the wish died, and love died too perhaps or changed into this painful affection, loyalty, pityâ€¦"

-- Graham Greene

#Love Quotes #Loyalty Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“Dreams sometimes foretell the future.”
“I strain to hear, but my old ears, for all their obscene hugeness, pick up nothing but snippets:”
“You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.”
“I'm divorced and I've been to the circus and seen the clowns. This ain't my first rodeo.”
“Huge advances in clean energy technology are happening all the time. Solar and wind are booming. New ways to generate energy from our windows, the paint on our walls, and even our bike paths are being invented all the time. Technology is moving forward, but it needs to be moving forward faster.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I would hit a scene about my mother screaming at me during her breakdown, drunk or using pills, and she'd turn into a monster. Which she wasn't. She was a human: somebody who loved me and somebody with a problem.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can never be the same as that which a subsequent age may require. Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and centre your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.”

Source : "Proclamation of Bahá'u'lláh". Book by Bahá'u'lláh, reference.bahai.org. 1978.
“Our public spaces are as profound as we allow them to be,”

Source : Candy Chang (2013). “Before I Die”, p.15, St. Martin's Griffin

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