"The best of life is life lived quietly, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change is imperceptible and the precious life is everything."

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Source : John McGahern (2009). “Memoir”, p.107, Faber & Faber

John McGahern

#Journey Quotes #Calm Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“Being a victim of oppression in the United States is not enough to make you revolutionary, just as dropping out of your mother's womb is not enough to make you human. People who are full of hate and anger against their oppressors or who only see Us versus Them can make a rebellion but not a revolution. The oppressed internalize the values of the oppressor. Therefore, any group that achieves power, no matter how oppressed, is not going to act differently from their oppressors as long as they have not confronted the values that they have internalized and consciously adopted different values.”
“You just have to have the guidance to lead you in the direction until you can do it yourself.”
“Family, community, and the realm of the private self - your mind, body, and spirit - are all important sources of the inspiration, support, and ideas we all need to lead the lives we want.”
“A good Christian is a velvet-covered brick.”
“Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them.”
“My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea; My heart is gladder than all these, Because my love is come to me. Raise me a daÃ¯s of silk and down; Hang it with vair and purple dyes; Carve it in doves and pomegranates, And peacocks with a hundred eyes; Work it in gold and silver grapes, In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys; Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.”
“I loved the Romeo and Juliet of the whole thing; this forbidden love between these two characters.”

Source : Source: www.empireonline.com
“He was a hateful terrorist who will be missed by all.”

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