“there are people all over the world who carry the mermaid inside them, that otherworldly beauty and longing and desire that made her reach for heaven when she lived in the darkness of the sea.”
― Carolyn Turgeon, quote from Mermaid
“Souls were webs of light that contained the essence of a human's life. Memories and loves, children and families. Every moment of life, pressing in”
― Carolyn Turgeon, quote from Mermaid
“It's a never ending dream for everyone it seems, to find again what was once precious and has been lost.”
― Carolyn Turgeon, quote from Mermaid
“Go and you will see that nothing is as wonderful as our dreams can make it”
― Carolyn Turgeon, quote from Mermaid
“I can't stop thinking about dying the way humans do it. Imagine! If at any moment, you could just stop existing. How different everything would be.." They don't stop existing Lenia said...They have souls that live forever. Even knowing that, they fight so hard to stay alive. I think it's so beautiful. Imagine: being that fragile, that permanent.”
― Carolyn Turgeon, quote from Mermaid
“Margrethe watched them paralyzed by the intensity of the emotions moving through her. So much pain and euphoria, a sense that even though her own heart was broken, the world could contain such beauty and magic she almost could not bear it? What did her own pain matter, in the face of that?”
― Carolyn Turgeon, quote from Mermaid
“How could none of them comprehend the beauty of a human soul,shining in heaven for eternity? Where it would be whole again, as they all had been once in times past?”
― Carolyn Turgeon, quote from Mermaid
“Souls were webs of light that contained the essence of a human’s life.”
― Carolyn Turgeon, quote from Mermaid
“That they have souls that live forever. Even knowing that, they fought so hard to stay alive.”
― Carolyn Turgeon, quote from Mermaid
“How can they be that poor, when our kingdom is so rich?”
― Carolyn Turgeon, quote from Mermaid
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“Franklin’s inquisitive mind craved stimulation, consistently gravitating toward whatever community of intellects asked the most intriguing questions; his expansive temperament sought souls that resonated with his own generosity and sense of virtue. In five years in England he had found more of both than in a lifetime in America. “Of all the enviable things England has,” he told Polly Stevenson, “I envy most its people. Why should that petty island, which compared to America is but like a stepping stone in a brook, scarce enough of it above water to keep one’s shoes dry; why, I say, should that little island enjoy in almost every neighbourhood more sensible, virtuous and elegant minds than we can collect in ranging 100 leagues of our vast forests?” He left such people reluctantly and, he trusted, temporarily.”
― H.W. Brands, quote from The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
“People always talk about how great it is to get older. All I saw were more rules and more adults telling me what I could and couldn't do, in the name of what's " good for me." Yeah, well, asparagus is good for me, but it still makes me want to throw up.”
― James Patterson, quote from Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
“الشريك الأساسي لهذا التورط من قبل الانسان ليس انسان آخر, لكنه النظام كنسيج يهدف ذاته. ينقسم الناس في هرم السلطة حسب درجة المسوؤلية, وليس بينها المسؤولية عن الكذب. إن الصراع بين مرام الحياة وأغراض النظام لا ينعكس في صراع بين طبقتين اجتماعيتين منفصلتين. النظرة العامة -بشكل تقريبي- تسمح بتقسيم المجتمع إلى حكام ومحكومين. هنا يكمن واحد من أهم الفروق بين نظام ما بعد الشمولية والديكتاتورية التقليدية, التي فيها يمكن رصد حدود هذا الصراع من الناحية الاجتماعية. في نظم ما بعد الشمولية هذه الحدود يصنعها في الواقع كل إنسان. حيث أن كل فردهو ضحية ودعامة. إن ما تعنيه كلمة نظام ليس النظام الذي يفرضه جماعة على الآخرين, لكنه شيء يتغلغل في المجتمع بأكمله ويشارك المجتمع في تشكيله. إنه شيء يبدو وكأنه لا يمكن الإمساك به, حيث أنه مجرد مبدأ, لكن في الواقع يمسك بالمجتمع بأكمله كعنصر هام يضمن له حياته.”
― Václav Havel, quote from The Power of the Powerless
“Everything is impermanent. Every physical and mental experience arises and passes. Everything in existence is endlessly arising out of causes and conditions. We all create suffering for ourselves through our resistance, through our desire to have things different than the way they are - that is, our clinging or aversion.”
― Noah Levine, quote from Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries
“In 1982, the top 1 percent of pop stars, in terms of pay, raked in 26 percent of concert ticket revenue. In 2003, that top 1 percent—names like Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, or 50 Cent—took 56 percent of the concert pie.12”
― Christopher L. Hayes, quote from Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
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