"Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist."

-- Madeleine L'Engle

#Attitude Quotes #Mean Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“I don't like the idea of famous people.”
“I'm scared. What will tomorrow bring? It has to be better than today. It has to.”
“Anger becomes limiting, restricting. You can't see through it. While anger is there, look at that, too. But after a while, you have to look at something else.”
“Without liberals we wouldn't have unions. We wouldn't have environmental protections. We wouldn't have seat belts or birth control or the ACLU! Any of these things!”
“We like democracy because why? The pathologies of the U.S. version are so obvious in the aftermath of the latest averted crisis that we need to ask ourselves whether itâ€™s worth it - and why electoral democracy hasnâ€™t self-destructed before. Should Tunisians or Egyptians opt for the Chinese model, where rational autocrats may restrict rights, but no one threatens to blow up world markets in the name of an 18th-century tax protest?”
“As long as we are not ourselves, we will try to be what other people are.”

Source : Malidoma Patrice Somé (1995). “Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman”, Penguin Books
“Many things can make you rich, but only a few things can enrich you.”
“Keep quiet and say one's prayers-certainly not merely the best, but the only things to do if one would be truly happy; but, ashamed of asking when I have received so much, the only form of prayer I would use would be a form of thanksgiving.”

Source : Elizabeth von Arnim (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth von Arnim (Illustrated)”, p.164, Delphi Classics

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