"Authority is granted to people who are perceived as authoring their own words, their own actions, their own lives, rather than playing a scripted role at great remove from their own hearts."

-- Parker J. Palmer

#Heart Quotes #People Quotes #Roles Quotes

“My faith experience, well, as you can imagine, you need a lot of faith to raise five boys.”
“Intergenerational support is crucial. I feel like generations give up on each other. If you're Gen Z, you're like, "Gen X is never gonna get it." If you're Gen X, you're like, "Those Millennials are such idiots."”
“Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.”
“Happiness is not out there for us to find. The reason that it's not out there is that it's inside us.”
“Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist; on a significant bases of reality, the imagination spins, weaving new patterns; a mixture of memories, experiences, free fancies, incongruities and improvisations.”

Source : August Strindberg (2014). “Strindberg Plays: 2: Dream Play; Dance of Death; The Stronger”, p.175, A&C Black
“The origin of the conflict, frustration, and anxiety we experience does not lie in the nature of the world itself but in our distorted conceptions of the world.”

Source : Stephen Batchelor (1983). “Alone with Others: An Existential Approach to Buddhism”, p.105, Grove Press
“Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.”

Source : Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.226, eBookIt.com
“Pity the poor infant. Born perfect into the world from imperfect parents.”

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