"Gabriel: Bethany lacks understanding about the ways of the world. She still has much to learn and that makes her vulnerable." Beth: "Do you have to make me sound like a full-time babysitting project?" Xavier: "I happen to be an experienced babysitter. I can show you my resume if you'd like."

-- Alexandra Adornetto

#Understanding Quotes #Gabriel Quotes #World Quotes

“Forests are the lungs of our land......”
“Art, we are told, is a criterion of one's taste. How humiliating, should our taste turn out to be bad. Rather as though we were caught stark naked with a poor figure.”
“Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or oblique. Don't be afraid of your material or your past. Be afraid of wasting any more time obsessing about how you look and how people see you. Be afraid of not getting your writing done.”
“A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jane Smiley from Jul 28, 2012
“Paracelsus At times I almost dream I too have spent a life the sagesâ€™ way, And tread once more familiar paths. Perchance I perished in an arrogant self-reliance Ages ago; and in that act a prayer For one more chance went up so earnest, so Instinct with better light let in by death, That life was blotted out â€” not so completely But scattered wrecks enough of it remain, Dim memories, as now, when once more seems The goal in sight again.”
“We have no home, she told me. I am your home.”
“I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.”

Source : Charles Darwin (2008). “On the Origin of Species”, Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated
“To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless, you lost the good that lay within your grasp.”

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