"None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world's evils; it's all a matter of what attitude you take towards them."

-- Azar Nafisi

#Attitude Quotes #Evil Quotes #World Quotes

“The Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide; he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle and conquest, life which should be high and full, lived for oneself, but not above all for others those who are at hand and those who are far distant, contemporaries, and those who will come after.”
“Marriage is the last sacrament available to modern man, and with the terrible destruction of interpersonal relations by capitalism and its war-making State, it is not very available, nor is it surely enduring. But then, vision does not come with guarantees.”

Source : "An Autobiographical Novel". Book by Kenneth Rexroth. Chapter: "World War II", www.bopsecrets.org. 1991.
“Gaze steadfastly at things which, though far away, are yet present to the mind.”
“A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.”
“I know I'm no Whitney Houston.”
“I am sorry " I murmured. "I know. I ought not to have threatened to beat you " he returned. He pressed a kiss to my hair. "I just cannot bear to be kept out of your life " I said into the dark. He gave a sigh. "Julia you daft woman. When you will you understand You are my life.”
“Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible. If the whole world turns against you keep your eyes on the Friend.”
“In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.”

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