"The career has to support the making and can offer a platform, can offer you a voice in the world. And that's an incredible thing. But it's complicated and seductive and weird and tricky. I think you have to keep figuring that out your whole life."

-- Zoe Leonard

#Thinking Quotes #Careers Quotes #Voice Quotes

“We don't only invent God; we also discover God. Looking at the creation, we strive to deduce the nature of the creator. We take familiar images of power and expand them until they become big enough to encompass the divine.”
“Few parents are aware of the difficulties that beset the minds of the little philosophers and theologians who sit upon their knees or play at their feet; and many a parent could not comprehend the disturbance, if he were aware of it.”
“To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.”
“The response to war is to live like brothers and sisters. The response to injustice is to share. The response to despair is a limitless trust and hope. The response to prejudice and hatred is forgiveness. To work for community is to work for humanity. To work for peace is to work for a true political solution; it is to work for the Kingdom of God. It is to work to enable every one to live and taste the secret joys of the human person united to the eternal.”
“I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.”
“Republicans have to be relieved. Given all the bad news this White House has faced, at least the president's hemorrhaging has stopped.”
“I beseech you to open your hearts and give back! Give your time/services/money/support/encouragement/love! Give whatever you can!”
“Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.”

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