It is blasphemy to separate oneself from the earth and look down on it like a god. It … - N.K. Jemisin

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Happiness is not about the trophy, or the finish line. It's the journey. If you enjoy your journey, you can enjoy your life

N.K. Jemisin

It is blasphemy to separate oneself from the earth and look down on it like a god. It is more than blasphemy; it is dangerous. We can never be gods, after all - but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.

Blasphemy, Ease, Frightening, Look, Looks, Nature

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In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.

Children, Glorious, Mom, Mother, Universe, Way

We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.

Ease, Frightening, Gods, Political, Politics

If the first words out of your mouth are to cry 'political correctness!',. . . chances are very, very high that you are in fact part of the problem.

Cry, Mouths, Political, Racism, Words

So here is why I write what I do: We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. And we all, every single one of us, no matter who we are and no matter what’s been taken from us or what poison we’ve internalized or how hard we’ve had to work to expel it – – we all get to dream.

Dream, Internalized, Matter, Pasts, Taken, Writing

I am not as I once was. They have done this to me, broken me open and torn out my heart. I do not know who I am anymore. I must try to remember.

Anymore, Broken, Heart, Remember, Torn, Who I Am

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Happiness is not about the trophy, or the finish line. It's the journey. If you enjoy your journey, you can enjoy your life

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Dorothy Day

To feed the hungry, clothe the naked and shelter the harborless without also trying to change the social order so that people can feed, clothe and shelter themselves is just to apply palliatives. It is to show a lack of faith in one’s fellows, their responsibilitie s as children of God, heirs of heaven.

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Aristotle

Every man should be responsible to others, nor should anyone be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man. But the principle of responsibility secures that which is the greatest good in states; the right persons rule and are prevented from doing wrong, and the people have their due. It is evident that this is the best kind of democracy, and why? because the people are drawn from a certain class.

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H. L. Mencken

The average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies.

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Isabel Allende

Each of us chooses the tone for telling his or her own story. I would like to choose the durable clarity of a platinum print, but nothing in my destiny possesses the luminosity. I live among diffuse shadings, veiled mysteries, uncertainties; the tone of telling my life is closer to that of a portrait in sepia.

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