"Sometimes we just have to accept there are things we canâ€™t know. Why is your sister ill? Why did my father die?â€¦Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we canâ€™t. we have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine."

-- David Almond

#Father Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Able Quotes

“Any musician with a slight level of self-awareness can be taught to write a 'good' song. A great song is completely original. It feels as if the performer is the only person who could bring it to life.”
“Refreshing failures roll off the travel easel like ants from a picnic blanket.”
“The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.”
“What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?”
“Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people.”
“We vote - if the public votes 50 percent, we vote 70 percent. So we have a bigger impact with our numbers, and the organization and the manpower we can bring to a race.”
“...new ideas are merely several old thoughts that occur at the exact same time.”

Source : Jonah Lehrer (2010). “How We Decide”, p.131, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.”

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