“Until you have done something for humanity,” wrote the great American educator Horace Mann, “you should be ashamed to die.”
― Mortality
― Mortality
“Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store? ”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
“Curiously, the one bodily fluid of other people that doesn't disgust us is the one produced by the human alone: tears. Consider the sole type of used tissue you'd be willing to share.”
― The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
― The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
“The sun rises every day. What is to love? Lock the sun in a box. Force the sun to overcome adversity in order to rise. Then we will cheer! I will often admire beautiful sunrise, but I will never consider the sun a champion for having risen.”
― The Art of Racing in the Rain
― The Art of Racing in the Rain
“I, personally, have resolved never to display weakness, to be always strong and firm and forthright, to show neither fear nor uncertainty-- no matter how fearful and uncertain I may be inside; I see no other way to survive this ordeal.”
― One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd
― One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd
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