"My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor"

-- Steve Case

#Mom Quotes #Teacher Quotes #Father Quotes

“States of soul rightly expressed, as the poet expresses them in moments of pure inspiration, retain forever the power of creating like states. It is this that makes genuine literature a vital force.”
“When you banish the dragons you banish the heroes.”

Source : Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
“I cannot live without children.”
“It is good to be a cynic it is better to be a contented cat and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.”
“The only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand, done, as Nietzsche said, â€˜notwithstanding,â€™ in the long run remakes the world.”

Source : Edmund Wilson, Lewis M. Dabney (1983). “The portable Edmund Wilson”, Viking Adult
“A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.”
“Sometimes there a hundred lies behind a smile and not a single truth behind a tear.”
“You can care very much about someone without being capable of becoming their primary caregiver in the event of their parents' untimely death.”

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