#ren

...because he knew that for other people their own social obligations took precedence of the death of a friend, and could put himself in her place by dint of his instinctive politeness. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#proust #death

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil. ↗

— Benjamin Haydon

#extract #good #human #human nature #inherent

Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds. ↗

— Bob Hayes

#conscious #expansion #experience #general #heavenly

As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate. ↗

— J. D. Hayworth

#apologize #been #casualties #celebrate #civilian

One bit of advice someone gave me - which I haven't yet tried - is that if you go to an area where you might pick up a tummy bug, you should seek out the local probiotic yogurt. Eating it will introduce you to the local gut flora, apparently. ↗

— Anthony Head

#apparently #area #bit #bug #eating

I want to know we're not pushing children toward the traditions of life, but instead cultivating them to grow in their own specific purposes, and make the dreams of their youth become realities as they age. ↗

— Ashley Ormon

#children #dreams-coming-true #goals #goals-in-life #success

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall. ↗

— Denis Healey

#between #difference #evasion #prison #tax

The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day of work. Just as a magician takes towers and rabbits out of his hat, he drew love from his small body. ↗

— Yehuda Amichai

#love

They called themselves an army. They were planning on recruiting more armies. They were planning on splitting up and forming smaller cells and going into different areas, recruiting more members and just growing until they had started a full scale war in this country. ↗

— Patty Hearst

#armies #army #called #cells #country

Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy. ↗

— Edward Heath

#apartheid #attitude #moral #policy