"The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others."

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Source : Arthur Paul Davis, Jay Saunders Redding, Joyce Ann Joyce (1991). “The New Cavalcade: African American Writing from 1760 to the Present”

Jay Saunders Redding

#Men Quotes #Community Quotes #Hunger Quotes

“If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations...”
“Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare's kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry to Spain and Portugal. Literature allowed him to transcend his surroundings.”
“My friends ... they usually rib me about how I just sleep in and watch Oprah and that I don't really have a proper job. I've given up arguing now, so I just agree with them, even though half the time I realise I've started work before they have. Still, it's best to keep the romantic idea alive. If they call around midday and ask if they woke me, I always say yes.”
“You must learn to look at people who are angry with you straight in the eye without getting angry back. When children see their parents treating them this way, they then recognize the parents' authority. It speaks louder than words. Their new respect for the parents is as good for them as it is for the parents. It never works to demand respect of children. It must be given willingly as a result of strength of good character in the parents, which is manifested by their non-reaction to stress in the children.”
“Michael Owen isn't the tallest of lads, but his height more than makes up for that.”
“For the 99 percent of the time we've been on Earth, we were hunter and gatherers, our lives dependent on knowing the fine, small details of our world. Deep inside, we still have a longing to be reconnected with the nature that shaped our imagination, our language, our song and dance, our sense of the divine.”
“This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor of nature, the beauty of art, the balm of love and the sheer joy of existence, always with the knowledge that illness, injury, natural disaster, or pure evil can end it in an instant for ourselves or someone we love.”
“Sometimes you have to put your balls on the line.”

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