"I've come down in the world. I've slid to a place where the ceiling is low and there isn't much room for me to move.Most of the time I'm good. I accepted my sentence and do not brood or look back. But sometimes a shift makes me remember. Routine is ruffled and a new start makes me suddenly conscious of what I've become -"

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Source : Leila Aboulela (2015). “Minaret”, p.4, Bloomsbury Publishing

Leila Aboulela

#Moving Quotes #New Start Quotes #World Quotes

“One Ranger is all you'll ever need. - Ranger”
“The artist's work, it is sometimes said, is to celebrate. But really that is not so; it is to express wonder. And something terrible resides at the heart of wonder. Celebration is social, amenable. Wonder has a chaotic splendor.”

Source : Patricia Hampl (1993). “Spillville: A Collaboration”, Milkweed Editions
“. . . What role does historiography play in the way a society and culture "remembers" past events? Does the historian have a moral or civic responsibility to this project of memory that ought to influence the way he or she engages in historical practice? Should moral concerns influence the historian's choice of subject matter, of issues to discuss, of evidence to use?”
“Our attempts to trust others will often be frustrated, but that's because God never wanted us to trust others. He wanted us to love others but to trust him alone.”
“For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night's rest.”
“No communication takes place until the other person feels heard”
“My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.”
“An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the best he can do for his breed is to crawl off and die, and not pass on his defective genes.”

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