"Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by the covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power."

-- Giovanni Giocondo

#Life Quotes #Judging Quotes #Covering Quotes

“Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group.”
“What we eat has changed more in the last 40 years than in the previous 40,000. The survival of the current food system depends upon widespread ignorance of how it really operates.”

Source : "Fast Food Nation". Book by Eric Schlosser, January 17, 2001.
“Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.”
“All we have-ourselves-to Him, and if that be all, that is enough.”
“I wish that we could tumble them in the dryer for 30 minutes and get them to shrink, but that won't happen.”
“For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.”
“When Barack Obama is right, then I'll support him. When he is wrong, I'll fight him.”
“I work as a dancer, but I also work as a choreographer with couples that have a lot of tension between them, and as dancer and as a choreographer, being in this situation is very difficult. You see the energy doesn't flow, and it's very tense.”

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