"Speaking, when you have something to say, is like looking. But who looks? If people could see properly, and see whole, they would all be painters. And it's because people have no idea how to look that they hardly ever understand."

-- Pierre Bonnard

#Ideas Quotes #People Quotes #Looks Quotes

“I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.”
“Evil almost always starts with small cruelties.”

Source : Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.130, Vintage
“Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.”

Source : Anita Brookner (1985). “Look at me”, Plume
“I am convinced that everyone can develop a good heart and a sense of universal responsibility with or without religion.”
“No one has the right to use America's rivers and America's Waterways, that belong to all the people. as a sewer. The banks of a river may belong to one man or one industry or one State, but the waters which flow between the banks should belong to all the people.”
“She felt like parts of her soul were missing, had left her body long ago. It had happened not in Greece three months ago, but long before that. It was in Greece that she'd realized those parts had left her and were not coming back.”
“In a study that I just did, I found that it was older children, not younger children, who felt that they didn't have enough time with their parents.”
“I am a child of God, and therefore I do not inherit sickness.”

Source : Charles Fillmore, Myrtle Fillmore (1949). “Unity [devoted to Practical Christianity]”

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