"Every time I scratch apathy, I find powerlessness beneath it. Humans care, they just don't know what to do about it."

-- Quinn Norton

#Apathy Quotes #Scratches Quotes #Care Quotes

“Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the pure and the obscene, and shows, in this discomfiting, hypnotic work, just how rarely those categories are what they seem. The translation is excellent - what a rare relief.”
“Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does.”

Source : David J. Chalmers (2010). “The Character of Consciousness”, p.5, Oxford University Press
“If we grew our own food, we wouldn't waste a third of it as we do today. If we made our own tables and chairs, we wouldn't throw them out the moment we changed the interior decor. If we had to clean our own drinking water, we probably wouldn't contaminate it.”

Source : "My year of living without money" by Mark Boyle, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2009.
“You bring up your children to be self-reliant and independent and they double-cross you and become self-reliant and independent.”

Source : Robert Cormier (2013). “EIGHT PLUS ONE: STORIES”, p.102, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“Nurture your felt love for nature. Never deny it. That love is the eons, the purifying intelligence, beauty and diversity of nature sustaining us in its perfection. Our disconnection from this love and its advice produces our hurt, greed and destructiveness. We must reconnect and restore its peaceful voice in our thoughts, soul and surroundings.”
“Women should not need a permission slip from government to take care of their own reproductive health.”
“What to know about pain is how little we do to deserve it, how simple it is to give, how hard to lose.”

Source : Frederick Busch (2013). “The Stories of Frederick Busch”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company
“I'm a problem-solver, and you're welcome.”

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