"Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things."

-- Alexander Hamilton

#Change Quotes #Constitution Quotes #Reason Quotes

“I don't think life is about a pace, living slow or fast. I think you just live, y'know what I mean?”
“Barack Obama is like the old joke about boats. The two best days of owning a boat are the day you buy it and the day you sell it.”
“Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.”
“Depression is pain in its purest form.”
“It's not that I'm rebelling. It's that I'm just trying to find another way.”

Source : "Edie : Girl On Fire". Book by David Weisman and Melissa Painter, 2006.
“Indifference is the saddest state of being. It's like PTSD - you're not gonna fight, you're not gonna run, you're just frozen there, feeling nothing. It's very easy to have conversations when you're sitting there feeling nothing, to talk about the weather or what you had for lunch, to Instagram what you had for lunch. We're all suffering from trauma. This world is so crazy. How do we feel safe here? I think that's the question everybody's asking, "What do I need to do to feel safe? Like I'm okay?" I don't think there's anything wrong with that.”
“Beauty is the flower of virtue.”
“The maddening thing for someone with a Western scientific turn of mind is that itâ€™s not whatâ€™s in your pack that separates the quick from the dead. Itâ€™s not even whatâ€™s in your mind. Corny as it sounds, itâ€™s whatâ€™s in your heart.”

Source : Laurence Gonzales (2017). “Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why”, p.23, W. W. Norton & Company

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