"Aspiration gets stuck in some people. It's difficult to think yes. Or up. When all you feel is fight or run."

-- Lidia Yuknavitch

#Running Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I wouldn't be surprised or shocked if, 10 years from now or 20 years from now, Muslims or Christians or non-Jews will be scared to reveal their religion, and they will be walking without - just, you know, hiding their religion. And that's where Israel is heading to.”
“I'm not creating an enigma or leaving mystery, I'm just respecting myself enough as an artist to give myself room to grow and not to be devoured all in one go.”
“Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.”
“And then he sank back and tried, as usual, not to think. He must succeed. That's what the world was made for. That's what he was made for. That was what he would have to do.”
“That wine drinking is more effete than beer drinking? No question.”
“To be energetic and firm where principle demands it, and tolerant in all else, is not easy. It is not easy to abhor wickedness, and oppose it with every energy, and at the same time to have the meekness and gentleness of Christ, becoming all things to all men for the truth's sake. The energy of patience, the most godlike of all, is not easy.”

Source : Mark Hopkins (1884). “Teachings and Counsels: Twenty Baccalaureate Sermons; with a Discourse on President Garfield”
“Part of falling in love with someone is actually falling in love with yourself.”

Source : Leah Raeder (2014). “Unteachable”, p.61, Simon and Schuster
“One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.”

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