"There is something about hearing your president affirm your humanity that you don't know what effect it has until you hear it."

-- Andrew Sullivan

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“Hours of crisis often call for sacrifice. In matters of consequence, when have doubt and fear given the best advice? Why not heed faith, courage, and honor?”
“Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.”
“It wasn't success, because Teller and I, by the time Asparagus Valley got together - within a year, we had achieved all our goals. I mean, our goal was to earn our living doing exactly what we wanted. Which is many people's goal.”
“Yes, I think that when the Bible refers to a horse or a horseman, that's exactly what it means.”
“If you haven't got a sense of humor you're making your life a hundred times harder. It doesn't matter what happens to you, if you can have a laugh about it, and don't take yourself so serious, you have the battles halfway won.”
“Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.”
“Iâ€™m really cracking. No, Iâ€™m beyond cracking. Iâ€™m shattered. Iâ€™m lost. Iâ€™m fragmented.”
“The woman is the man's glory, and she naturally delights in the praises which are assurances that she is fulfilling her function; and she gives herself to him who succeeds in convincing her that she, of all others, is best able to discharge it for him. A woman without this kind of "vanity" is a monster.”

Source : Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Rod, the Root and the Flower”, p.20, Lulu.com

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