"I cry because the future has once again found its sparkle and has grown a million times larger. And I cry because I am ashamed of how badly I have treated the people I loveâ€“of how badly I behaved during my own personal Dark Agesâ€“back before I had a future and someone who cared for me from above. It is like today the sky opened up and only now am I allowed to enter"

-- Douglas Coupland

#Dark Quotes #Sky Quotes #People Quotes

“maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us--”
“You can fix anything but a blank page.”
“Our Keystone legislation received strong bipartisan support in the Senate. Although it didn't receive the 60 votes necessary for passage, 56 senators - a majority - voted in favor of the bill. Despite President Obama's actively lobbying against the bill, we still won the support of 11 Democrats.”
“What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.”
“If I believe that I am right, I will take it to the end of the earth until I am proven right.”
“Anchor your faith in the plain and simple truths of the gospel.”
“Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.”

Source : Lionel Trilling (2012). “The Liberal Imagination”, p.245, New York Review of Books
“In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”

Source : Speech on the Occasion of the Opening of the Governor General's Canadian Leadership Conference by Adrienne Clarkson in Winnipeg, archive.gg.ca. May 07, 2004.

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