"To come to terms with our beginning requires a truthful story to acquire the skills to live in gratitude rather than resentment for the gift of life."

-- Stanley Hauerwas

#Thanksgiving Quotes #Gratitude Quotes #Skills Quotes

“Everyone's extremely and easily offended now.”
“I'm a Virgo and the sign is a virgin. So when I was 16, I got the word virgin tattooed on my wrist, thinking I was sooo deep and cool. And now I just look really weird having virgin written across my wrist and I have to explain it.”
“I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.”
“A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life. This is true since an article about the condition of deadness would make for turgid reading at best.”
“All art is holy. Not that it is all long-faced and miserable; it can be wild and wooly. But if it transforms you, it is art. And it is holy.”
“Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention.”
“When you go to Washington now, you can feel a sense of fear in the air - the fear to do anything, or say anything, that might affect the polls, or give the other side an advantage, or offend a special interest.”
“My head was a desolate place and as barren as the bare hills of Le Marche. Until I began to build in it, only vultures nested there.”

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