"This was not a good idea coming home for Christmas. I'm too old. Years ago, coming back from schools or trips, I always expected some sort of new perspective or fresh insight about the family on returning. That doesn't happen anymore-the days of revelation about my parents, at least, are over... its time to move on. I think we'd all appreciate that."

-- Douglas Coupland

#Moving Quotes #Home Quotes #School Quotes

“Over half of people who are working now and over 50 have nothing for retirement savings. They will only have Social Security to rely on.”
“There is a blueprint for every accomplishment-all we need to do is to know how to follow it. Trial and error is ridiculous after the truth has once been established.”
“Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.”

Source : "Susan Orlean New Book: Los Angeles Public Library Is The Subject". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.
“Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.”
“I went to see a shaman. He put his hands on me, and I cried like a baby for an hour.”
“The discrepancy or contradiction is the entire story. And being the entire story, it by itself discredits the entire twenty-six volumes of the Warren Commission. Nothing else has to be shown or even argued.”
“people coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with an apprentice blacksmith.”
“Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.”

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