"Things would hurt me in a big way because I didn't seem to have a very thick layer of skin, but this also meant I had extreme empathy for other people. I think perhaps that's what makes my songs hit home for some people, because I've tried to see the world through their eyes and I recognise- even just for a second- that we all ultimately are struggling with the same things."

-- Missy Higgins

#Song Quotes #Hurt Quotes #Struggle Quotes

“Baseball lasts as long as it takes. Like life, like love, baseball exists in real time.”
“Peter's fear of the animals which were shown him was probably not a directly conditioned fear.”
“When I was in high school, I was dating this girl and wanted to make her birthday really special. I showed up early to school and went around to every single one of her classes and left a rose with her teachers. Each rose had a note with a little inside joke.”
“Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.”
“While I may never be in remission from cancer, I am currently in remission from an unhealthy relationship to food.”
“The definitions of humanism are many, but let us here take it to be the attitude of those men who think it an advantage to live in society, and, at that, in a complex and highly developed society, and who believe that man fulfills his nature and reaches his proper stature in this circumstance. The personal virtues which humanism cherishes are intelligence, amenity, and tolerance; the particular courage it asks for is that which is exercised in the support of these virtues. The qualities of intelligence which it chiefly prizes are modulation and flexibility.”

Source : "The Portable Matthew Arnold " by Lionel Trilling, Viking Press, 1949.
“I still think of myself really as a New Yorker”
“Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.”

Source : Julien Green (1964). “Diary, 1928-1957”, London, Collins

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