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“A good shepherd encourages and inspires each one that works alongside him.”
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“Now and then in life, love catches you unawares, illuminating the dark corners of your mind, and filling them with radiance. Once in a while you are faced with a beauty and a joy that takes your soul, all unprepared, by assault.”
― Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
― Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
“Your generation is suffering from what for lack of a better word I shall call over-debunk. There was a lot of debunking that had to be done, of course. Bigotry, militarism, nationalism, religious intolerance, hypocrisy, phonyness, all sorts of dangerous, ready-made, artificially preserved false values. But your generation and the generation before yours went too far with their debunking job. You went overboard. Over-debunk, that's what you did. It's moral overkill. It's like those insecticides Rachel Carson speaks of in her book, that poison everything, and kill all the nice, useful bugs as well as the bad ones, and in the end poison human beings as well. In the end, it poisons life itself, the very air we breathe. That's what you did, morally and intellectually speaking. Yours is a silent spring. You have overprotected yourselves. You are all no more than twenty, twenty-two years old, but yours is a silent spring, I'm telling you. Nothing sings for you any more.”
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― خداحافظ گاری کوپر
“Life is dear to every living thing; the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it.”
― Twelve Years a Slave
― Twelve Years a Slave
“...I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its terrors, is so filled with moments of grace.”
― Odd Hours
― Odd Hours
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