"Personal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind."

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Source : Susan Cheever (2007). “American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

Susan Cheever

#Heart Quotes #Soul Quotes #Brain Quotes

“Great ability without discretion comes almost invariably to a tragic end”
“You might think what I tell you next is all a dream, or that I've imagined it. I can't help it if that's what you think, but I swear it's true. Sometimes the truest things are the hardest to believe.”
“So when my film career took off, I always felt like I was trying to play catch-up because I hadn't studied acting before. I didn't know how to manage money or my career. When I look back, I think I was a little bit shell-shocked.”
“Human rights are an aspect of natural law, a consequence of the way the universe works, as solid and as real as photons or the concept of pi. The idea of self- ownership is the equivalent of Pythagoras' theorem, of evolution by natural selection, of general relativity, and of quantum theory. Before humankind discovered any of these, it suffered, to varying degrees, in misery and ignorance.”
“You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can.”
“You know, what we list as a hate group are groups that vilify or defame entire groups of people, typically for their immutable characteristics.”
“Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.”
“Masonry aims at the promotion of morality and higher living by the cultivation of the social side of man, the rousing in him of the instincts of charity and love of his kind. It rests surely on the foundation of the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God.”

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