"It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil -- far more invigorating to see it as essential for honing the mind, and as a positive good in itself. For the day that moral issues cease to be fought over is the day the word human disappears from the race."

-- Jill Tweedie

#Thinking Quotes #Race Quotes #Issues Quotes

“Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.”
“The phone rang. I picked it up. "Kate Daniels" "It's me," Curran said. "Iâ€”" I hung up.”
“I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.”
“Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief”

Source : Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God. Not in doing what you like but in liking what you do is the secret of happiness.”

Source : "Going up to Jerusalem", Twenty Sermons (p. 330), 1886.
“I've succeeded at everything except my life.”
“Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.”
“Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment I boarded my flight, life in England became meaningless. Seat-belt signs lit up, problems switched off. Broken armrests took precedence over broken hearts. By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed.”

Source : Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.92, Penguin

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