“To understand everything is to forgive.”
― The Island of Sea Women
― The Island of Sea Women
“The Greeks had a word, xenia—guest friendship—a command to take care of traveling strangers, to open your door to whoever is out there, because anyone passing by, far from home, might be God. Ovid tells the story of two immortals who came to Earth in disguise to cleanse the sickened world. No one would let them in but one old couple, Baucis and Philemon. And their reward for opening their door to strangers was to live on after death as trees—an oak and a linden—huge and gracious and intertwined. What we care for, we will grow to resemble. And what we resemble will hold us, when we are us no longer. . . .”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“Invoking the story of David, Davies implored his students to “imbibe and cherish a public spirit. Serve your generation. Live not for your selves, but the public. Be the servants of the Church; the servants of your Country; the servants of all.” He exhorted them to “esteem yourselves” not by how much “more happy, honourable and important” you can become but by how much “more useful you are!”
― Rush: Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father
― Rush: Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father
“The best arguments in the world won't change a person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“You can’t come back to something that is gone.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
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