"The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life."

--

Pat Conroy

#Teacher Quotes #Reason Quotes #Embrace Quotes

“Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt.”
“There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't.”
“Most of my poetry lies beyond the SF field, yet here I am corralled into 'SF poetry' as part of this poetry weekend. Of course, some might say, 'you've made your own bed - now you must lie in it!' But, while fully accepting that dictum, I'm not yet quite prepared to lie down...”
“I'm against eating a human being alive - I don't do it. Somebody might make cannibalism jokes and laugh it off like it's nothing. I don't agree with that. I want to proclaim a rejection of cannibalism.”

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“Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.”
“We've got to be long distance runners on the spiritual path. We want to run as fast as we can, but at the same time realize that if God isn't at the end of that 100 yards, we don't fall flat of exhaustion. We've got to have whatever rhythm it takes to be able to go on for incarnations until we find that state of perfection we've been seeking.”
“I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.”
“The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.”

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