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Anyone can nurture a myth about their life if they have enough manure, so if the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, that’s probably because it’s full of shit.
“And sometimes I think the greatest courage in the world is to get up in the morning and go about a day’s work. That is one of the things I like about him. He keeps on and on and on. —Lady Bird Johnson, White House diary, August 27, 1968”
― Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight
― Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight
“Well, there’s no proof that will happen. You can’t count on things happening tomorrow just because they happened in the past. It’s faulty logic.”
― Sunrise on the Reaping
― Sunrise on the Reaping
“They feel that if I have any kind of life at all, I am going to enjoy it as best I can because I may not be here tomorrow. This is what the youth of America is crying today. They also feel that if my education is going to only bring me a diploma, that I will not even have a job waiting for me afterwards, why should I even try to get a diploma? There are boys now that I know across this nation who feel it does not pay to be a good guy today, “Why should I be a good guy? If I am a bad guy, I get thrown in jail and I have a record or the Government is going to take care of me.”
― Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight
― Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight
“And I think he loves everyone, and he wants everyone to be okay, and I think almost everyone who is, like, earnestly seeking God—people aren’t seeking that out of ego; they’re looking for the meaning of life and they’re looking beyond themselves for it—and, I mean, I don’t know anything, except that I think God is the kind of guy who when someone dies, he’ll sit there and sift through every heartfelt thought, every drunken prayer, every desperate plea for help, every Mumford & Sons song that you’ve sung to look for a hint of a confession that you believe in him.”
― The Conditions of Will
― The Conditions of Will
“It’s unbearable to have your identity summed up by one thing and one thing only and for other people to have control over what that is.”
― A Man
― A Man
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