"There's a lot that is awful. That's the struggle of getting old. To make sure you don't let what's hard...obscure the beauty."

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Sara Zarr

#Struggle Quotes #Awful Quotes #Obscure Quotes

“We need other human beings in order to be human.”
“Has the God who made the white man and the black left any record declaring us a different species? Are we not sustained by the same power, supported by the same food. . . . And should we not then enjoy the same liberty. . .?”
“I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.”
“We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society.”

Source : Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”
“how ridiculous we often are in our negations, our strutting self importance, our penchant for making labels and sticking them on people. As though labelling a person disposed of him!”

Source : Muriel Lester (1937). “It Occurred to Me”
“This is the kind of situation that can tear people apart. It tears at the fabric of your soul and can certainly tear at your marriage and ours has gotten only stronger.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious.”
“When a soul has advanced so far on the spiritual road as to be lost to all the natural methods of communing with God; when it seeks Him no longer by meditation, images, impressions, nor by any other created ways, or representations of sense, but only by rising above them all, in the joyful communion with Him by faith and love, then it may be said to have found God of a truth, because it has truly lost itself as to all that is not God, and also as to its own self.”

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