#ow

Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house fly and the moth, must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the boys. Virtues and graces and laziness and zest. Our Father who art in nature. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#god #john-steinbeck #nature #outcasts #society

In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match. ↗

— Yann Martel

#men

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

#any #compassion #creatures #deal #exclude

For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessness do not usually bring forth their finest qualities. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#powerlessness #marriage

We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost. ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#forlorn #lost #old #soldiers #sorrow

The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick. ↗

— Joe Abercrombie

#knowledge #truth #men

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#cowardly #escape #only #peace #problems

He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that. ↗

— Robert Jordan

#expectations #jordan #lan #new-spring #overwhelmed

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field? ↗

— Jim Bouton

#baseball #baseball players #field #football #football players

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#become #men #nothing #place #themselves