"Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity."

-- Mary Catherine Bateson

#Loss Quotes #Echoes Quotes #Identity Quotes

“We ought to be able to persuade on opposite sides of a question; as also we ought in the case of arguing by syllogism: not that we should practice both, for it is not right to persuade to what is bad; but in order that the bearing of the case may not escape us, and that when another makes an unfair use of these reasonings, we may be able to solve them.”
“Certainly you will have doubts. There will be questionings and faith will return again. That is how faith is established.”
“And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.”
“Americans want to defeat terrorism and they want the basic character of this country to survive and prosper. They want both security and liberty, and unless we give them both â€” and we can if we try â€” we have failed.”
“To everyone who says this is wrong to feel like this say, 'I was born this way baby.”
“And I could weep at how mean people are and how they betray their fellow creatures, perhaps for the sake of personal advantage. It is enough to make a person lose heart sometimes. I often wish I lived on a Robinson Crusoe island.”
“Somewhere inside we do know everything about ourselves. There is no real forgetting. Perhaps we know somewhere, too, about all there is to come.”

Source : Jane Gardam (1986). “Crusoe's Daughter”, Atheneum Books
“I don't enjoy other people's dramas, and I don't enjoy mine.”

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