Apparente Liberta Quotes

#1. To the darkness and the night, the spirits seem to have a natural claim - it is their realm; the boldest of us have sometimes felt an unaccountable creeping in the thick darkness.

Richard Jefferies

#2. Antiessentialist thinking forces us to view the world differently. We must accept shadings and continua as fundamental. We lose criteria for judgment by comparison to some ideal: short people, retarded people, people of other beliefs, colors, and religions are people of full status.

Stephen Jay Gould

#3. Her profession did not fascinate him in the least, and he had no boyhood memories of tenderness or embarrassment to soften him toward the subtleties of her trade; when he looked at her, he saw only a catalogue of indiscretions.

Eleanor Catton

#4. So many tremendous decisions in life are made because it is five o'clock.

Arthur Miller

#5. God's star promised peace to the whole world ... too often man's synthetic stars bring fear and anxiety. Our gadget-filled paradise, suspended in a hell of international insecurity, certainly does not offer us the happiness of which the last century dreamed. But there is still a star in the sky.

Billy Graham

#6. The future is hidden even from those who make it.

Anatole France

#7. I've got to
decide:
kill myself or
love myself?

Charles Bukowski

#8. Country taught me how to sing, it put me on a path. But I was never going to be locked into a formula. I don't want to be considered a current country artist.

Emmylou Harris

#9. Hiking the PCT was the maddening effort of knitting that sweater and unraveling it over and over again.

Cheryl Strayed

#10. [T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (68)

Karen Armstrong

#11. Exposing impressionable young men to the glories of opera on their first evening at home with you tended to put the kiss of death on things, as Oliver, to his cost, had discovered over the years.

Anthony McDonald

#12. A relapse doesn't mean you'll never walk down the path you prefer. But I think relapses are almost an inevitable part of any course of self-development.

Philippa Perry

#13. I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check.

Edward Burns

#14. The shift from thinking that I must feel forgiveness to the practice of repetitive giving forgiveness has helped me in my healing journey.

Lisa J. Shultz

#15. I find that it really helps that I live in the States. I'm married to an American, and I have lots of American friends.

Emily Blunt