“...the proposition that we can look into another person’s heart with perfect clarity strikes me as a fool’s game. I don’t care how well we think we should understand them, or how well we think we should understand them, or how much we love them. All it can do is cause us pain. Examining your own heart, however, is another matter. I think it’s possible to see what’s in there if you work hard enough at it. So in the end maybe that’s the challenge: to look inside your own heart as perceptively and seriously as you can, and to make peace with what you find there. If we hope to truly see another person, we have to start by looking within ourselves.”
― Men Without Women
― Men Without Women
“You need some ambition.
What big ambition did you have, apart from wantin to be a hero?
Nothin. I just wanted to be a good man.
That's all I want.”
― Cloudstreet
What big ambition did you have, apart from wantin to be a hero?
Nothin. I just wanted to be a good man.
That's all I want.”
― Cloudstreet
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