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“We like people for their qualities, but we love them for their defects.” In writing this line I meant to say that we must not simply “accept” imperfection when it is revealed to us—we must celebrate it. This, I assure you, is the true sign
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“The things that are celebrated as human decency, true heroism, true self-sacrifice, and with a kind of leadership that was completely iconoclastic during the first half of the twentieth century are nearly forgotten. All of a sudden we started looking inward and becoming obsessed with behavior, idiosyncrasies, human flaws, and all this stuff. Some great accomplishments happened in the second half of the twentieth century, don’t get me wrong, but in the process we lost a template of what truly being human looks like.”
― Easy Street: The Hard Way
― Easy Street: The Hard Way
“Don’t say a word unless that word is worth saying, and if that word is worth saying, say it beautifully. I learned that from Sean Connery.”
― Easy Street: The Hard Way
― Easy Street: The Hard Way
“Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.”
― Easy Street: The Hard Way
― Easy Street: The Hard Way
“very rarely does change come in the form you imagined it would. When you’re in the cocoon you never know what kind of butterfly is gonna come flying out.”
― Easy Street: The Hard Way
― Easy Street: The Hard Way
“blessed are the storytellers, because they can bridge oceans, marshal great forces, inspire and instruct, transcend all limits, transform hearts and minds. They can break down barriers and be the common thread for disparate humanities, reaching across distant borders.”
― Easy Street: The Hard Way
― Easy Street: The Hard Way
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