"endurance of inescapable sorrow is something which has to be learned alone. And only to endure is not enough. Endurance can be a harsh and bitter root in one's life, bearing poisonous and gloomy fruit, destroying other lives. Endurance is only the beginning. There must be acceptance and the knowledge that sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness."

-- Pearl S. Buck

#Acceptance Quotes #Roots Quotes #Joy Quotes

“I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did.”

Source : "Exclusive Interview: Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers". www.pbs.org.
“But live you get the chance every night to rework it and change it and hone it. But then you get the false, weird oddness of being able to look at it and say: "Well that's weird, because last night they laughed at that and yet they didn't tonight. So what did I do? Nothing was different." You have that strange thing of being able to tell within five minutes what an audience is like. Very quickly an audience gets a personality and you start to think: "What is it about you all; you all hate it, don't you?" Then you come out and have friends in and they say: "It was brilliant!"”
“I gave no prescriptions, And those who have taken my moods for prophecies Mistake the matter.”

Source : Louis Simpson (2003). “The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001”, p.195, BOA Editions, Ltd.
“There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.”
“The love of dress is very marked in this attractive animal.”
“Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the panic follows.”
“Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted with heavy weights.”
“I don't like the antagonism that most religions have for science, and freedom and, frankly, individuality. I do like the Dalai Lama.”

Source : Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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