“Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“You have been cast into a race in which the wind is always at your face and the hounds are always at your heels. And to varying degrees this is true of all life. The difference is that you do not have the privilege of living in ignorance of this essential fact.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“But as I get older, I see examples of prayer all around me that look more like chores. They are varied and endless and they are ordinary: cooking a meal, setting a table, planting trees, taking someone’s temperature, turning compost, feeding animals, packing a child’s lunch, weeding garden beds, mowing the lawn, raising children. All these, when practiced mindfully, can clear the head, open the heart, reconnect us to something hopeful, and create space in the day to praise the living world.”
― What We Wish Were True: Reflections on Nurturing Life and Facing Death
― What We Wish Were True: Reflections on Nurturing Life and Facing Death
“But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
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