"There was nothing wrong with fire â€¦ as long as you didnâ€™t stand too close. Something to keep in mind."

-- Becca Fitzpatrick

#Fire Quotes #Long Quotes #Mind Quotes

“No one who knows my personal situation would think I am not sympathetic to the needs of the active forces.”
“An Experiment, like every other event which takes place, is a natural phenomenon; but in a Scientific Experiment the circumstances are so arranged that the relations between a particular set of phenomena may be studied to the best advantage.”
“After Self-Realisation it is easy to perceive the truth that all these religions were born on the same tree of spirituality, but that those in charge of each religion plucked the flowers from the living source and are now fighting each other with the dead flowers of merely partial truths.”
“It really made me nervous to write about it [Holocaust] and to approach it, because I was nervous about how to do it respectfully, and I was also thinking about how I could add something new to something that had already been so explored.”
“What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and color and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack.”
“Whatever is genuine in social relations endures, despite of time, error, absence, and destiny; and that which has no inherent vitality had better die at once. A great poet has truly declared that constancy is no virtue, but a fact.”

Source : Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.126
“If you look at it that way, then you start thinking about the basic things, which are jobs not jails, and education not incarceration.”
“There was only the dark infinity in which nothing was. And something happened. At the distance of a star something happened, and everything began. The Word did not come into being, but it was. It did not break upon the silence, but it was older than the silence and the silence was made of it.”

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