"With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before."

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Source : Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam

Gail Sheehy

#Growth Quotes #Way Quotes #Vulnerable Quotes

“What I have seen in the past 10 years of traveling- performing at a church one day and a casino the next- is that a lot of people in the church want to be entertained, and people in casinos want to be ministered to. That's hard to understand, but I see a hunger in the world that I don't see in the church.”
“The symbiotic relationship between reading and writing is a cornerstone of our individual intellectual journey and our educational system. We write as an act of self-expression. We read because language renders unto us the vitality of real and imagined experience.”

Source : Marita Golden (2011). “The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing”, p.5, Broadway Books
“I know I am only one, but I am one, and just because I'm one should not stop me from”
“Skateboarding and that whole industry just became so far away. I was trying to find that ultimate place, that place of contentment but I couldn't. I didn't find it in pushing the dark things of life to the limit either.”

Source : Source: theindiespiritualist.com
“The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.”
“If we have another 2,000 people killed, I want Nancy Pelosi and George Soros, John Conyers and Pat Leahy to go to the funeral and say, 'Your son was vaporized because we didn't want to dump some guy's head under water for 30 seconds.'”
“I am certain that most Germans have instinctive liking for Italy, just as Italians admire Germans for their many qualities.”
“Money spent in complying with a regulation cannot be spent again on marketing or product research.”

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