"At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living that would keep it alive, that was to make me skeptical of everything while seeking everything, tolerant of all and yet critical. The spirit I had caught gave me insight into the suffering of others, made me gravitate toward those whose feelings were like my own, made me sit for hours while others told me of their lives, made me strangely tender and cruel, violent and peaceful."

-- Richard Wright

#Attitude Quotes #Peaceful Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic. As one tends the graves of the dead, so I tend the books. And every day I open a volume or two, read a few lines or pages, allow the voices of the forgotten dead to resonate inside my head.”

Source : Diane Setterfield (2011). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.24, Hachette UK
“So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.”

Source : "The Fun’s in the Fight". www.motherjones.com. May/June 1993.
“I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.”

Source : "A New Mountain to Climb: Heroes I've Met and the Mountains They Climb Every Day". Book by Neal McCoy, p. 72, 2010.
“if the world is not safe for babies you are never going to get a democracy worth having.”
“The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it.”
“Every good work of software starts by scratching a developers personal itch.”

Source : Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.23, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
“Having a book is somewhat like having a baby, as many woman writers have observed before me: the conception, the long preparation, the wait, the growing heaviness (not of body in this case but of the spirit and the manuscript) toward the end, the initial delight at the sight of the product, fully formed and seemingly perfect, and then the usual postpartum depression. What will people whose opinion I care about, and those whose views I don't value but have weight in the world of reader, think of it?”

Source : Doris Grumbach (2014). “Extra Innings: A Memoir”, p.7, Open Road Media
“Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thanks goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might as well go and pick out your coffin.”

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