"When we realize that we are both wretched and beautiful, we are freed up to see others the same way."

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Shane Claiborne

#Beautiful Quotes #Way Quotes #Realizing Quotes

“I never got along with my dad. Kids used to come up to me and say, "My dad can beat up your dad." I'd say Yeah? When?”
“Any Organized social group is always a stratified social body. There has not been and does not exist any permanent social group which is "flat" and in which all members are equal.”

Source : Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin (1998). “Social Mobility”, p.12, Taylor & Francis
“We don't pretend to disagree.”
“The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant or a band, nor is it any further away than the next sentence, the next best guess, the next sketch for the painting of a life portrait that might become a masterpiece. The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation, you can make of it what you will.”
“He murmers into my hair, "Forget what I said earlier, let's stick with this, I might not survive anything more." I laugh. Then he jumps up, finds my wrists, and pins them over my head. "Yeah, right. Totally joking, I want to do everything with you, whenever you're ready, I'm the one, promise?" He's above me, batting and grinning like a total hooplehead. "I promise," I say. "Good. Glad that's decided." He raises an eyebrow. "I'm going to deflower you, John Lennon.”
“I've a full-length triple-panel mirror in which I can see every possible angle, and I spend quite a lot of time in front of it.”
“Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.”
“Literature is the expression of society.”

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