"The greatest evils of society are goods that have refused to go on, but have sat down on the highway, saying to the world, "We stop here; do you stop also."

-- Julia Ward Howe

#Evil Quotes #Progress Quotes #Goes On Quotes

“It is more important to be of service than successful.”
“Don't eat me. I am an inchworm. I am useful. I measure things.”

Source : Leo Lionni (1960). “Inch by Inch”
“I carry a lot of scars. I like the way that sounds. I carry a LOT of scars.”
“The adult May fly lives only a few hours, just long enough to mate. He has neither mouth nor stomach, but needs neither since he does not live long enough to need to eat. The eggs the May fly leaves hatch after the parent has died. What is it all about. What's the point? There is no point. That's just the way it is. It is neither good nor bad. Life is mainly simply inevitable. (41)”
“I am a Slavic musician and it is deeply inside of me.”
“When you come up with a theory, you fall in love with the beauty the simplicity and elegance of it. But then you have to get a sheet of paper and pencil and crack out all the details. Hundreds and hundreds of pages. Because you have to prove it.”
“Most of us live our lives desperately trying to conceal the anguishing gap between our polished, aspirational, representational selves and our real, human, deeply flawed selves. Dunham lives hers in that gap, welcomes the rest of the world into it with boundless openheartedness, and writes about it with the kind of profound self-awareness and self-compassion that invite us to inhabit our own gaps and maybe even embrace them a little bit more, anguish over them a little bit less.”
“To support whatever is right, and to bring in justice where weve had so much injustice.”

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