"It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational."

-- Alasdair MacIntyre

#Practice Quotes #Community Quotes #Participation Quotes

“The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids decision not to drink alcohol.”
“How do you bear it?â€ Finnick looks at me in disbelief. â€œI donâ€™t, Katniss! Obviously, I donâ€™t. I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find thereâ€™s no relief in waking.â€ â€œThe more you can distract yourself the better, â€ he says. â€œFirst thing tomorrow, weâ€™ll get you your own rope. Until then take mine.”
“I didn't know enough as a writer to understand why I needed to do this, but I understood in a very gut way that I could not entertain those thoughts of pleasing people and write this book - that it would be a very different book. Without really sort of investigating that instinct, which I'm glad for, I just made a conscious decision to put blinders on and not think about anything and put it all in. And I did. I put everything in. I had to look at the whole picture to see what I needed.”

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“For me, the idea of being a successful actor is hanging out with my dogs and my boy, down in Venice beach, and going, "I don't have to audition today. I've got a little respite here."”
“I think that nothing is impossible when you want to fulfill a dream. A lot of people will tell you that you can't do it, that you don't have what it takes, but if it is in your heart and you feel it, there is nothing that will stop you. It is like the sun - you can't block it: it will shine regardless, if that is what you want.”
“Putting my face in food is not a habit I have unless I'm really drunk.”
“I was supremely happy, for I had seen. Nothing could ever be the same. I have drunk at the clear and pure waters and my thirst was appeased. ...I have seen the Light. I have touched compassion which heals all sorrow and suffering; it is not for myself, but for the world. ...Love in all its glory has intoxicated my heart; my heart can never be closed. I have drunk at the fountain of Joy and eternal Beauty. I am God-intoxicated.”
“Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.”

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