Hager Cohen Quotes

#1. Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#2. If only you knew how beautiful you are unconditionally. Don't you know it's enough if all you do is breathe?

Brittany Burgunder

#3. The occasion's enormity: The birth of a friendship being no less momentous than the instant of falling in love.

Leah Hager Cohen

#4. I thought God cannot be Fullness of Being. For Life is Motion.
For Life is Motion toward Knowledge. If God is Complete Knowledge then He is Complete Non-Motion, which is Non-Life, which is Death. Therefore, if there is such a God of Fullness of Being, we would worship Death, the Father.

Robert Penn Warren

#5. Yet the basic fact remains: we live in a world marked by violence, and if we want to protect others, we sometimes have to be willing to fight.

Eric Greitens

#6. I take my dog, Fideo, out for a hike in Runyon Canyon three times a week. It's about 45 minutes round-trip with a variation of super steep hills and flat areas. He's always running ahead, which helps me push myself, especially up the hills.

Ana Ortiz

#7. We are at the mercy of our own narrative impulses.

Leah Hager Cohen

#8. The ignorance we're ignorant of is the ignorance most difficult to remedy.

Leah Hager Cohen

#9. The involuntary poetry of one who is not fluent in the language.

Leah Hager Cohen

#10. The humor is the sort born of ironic necessity; they use it to salve the wounds in insensitity.

Leah Hager Cohen

#11. A life on the ocean wave! A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep!

Epes Sargent

#12. Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.

John Milton

#13. Undoubtedly, the biggest influence on my life is my mom, followed pretty closely by my dad.

Melissa Harris-Perry

#14. The ability to know one's limitations, to recognize the bounds of one's own comprehension - this is a kind of knowing that approaches wisdom.

Leah Hager Cohen

#15. Food and shelter are very nice, but without stories to hear and tell, we might as well be the walking dead.

Leah Hager Cohen

#16. Opposites attract, but similarities bind.

Matthew Woodring Stover

#17. Like storytelling, that incessant loving rush of explaining and repositioning and telling again, all for the sake of finding something shared, something mutually recognized
so interpreting seemed to me. It seemed a kind of goodness.

Leah Hager Cohen

#18. Every sad thing, every loss or hurt really a challenge to love that much more, really just another of beauty's many strongholds.

Leah Hager Cohen

#19. I am too busy with my cause to hate too absorbed in something bigger than myself. I have no time to quarrel, no time for regrets and no man can force me to stoop low enough to hate him.

Lawrence James

#20. People cheat when they are afraid. When there is no cost to being wrong or confessing ignorance, there is no reason to cheat or fake comprehension.

Leah Hager Cohen

#21. In this day ... community has come to mean less a geographic neighborhood than a broader, sketchier network of colleagues and kindred spirits.

Leah Hager Cohen

#22. I have been too fond of stories.

Leah Hager Cohen

#23. For why are we here if not to try to fathom one another? Not through facts alone, but with the full extent of our imaginations. And what are stories if not tools for imagining?

Leah Hager Cohen

#24. Grief. This is what it does to people. It makes them strangers to themselves.

Allen Zadoff

#25. Who could ever tell a story complete?

Leah Hager Cohen

#26. If you will investigate all the Indian troubles, you will find that there is something wrong of this nature at the bottom of all of them, something relating to the supplies, or else a tardy and broken faith on the part of the general government.

George Crook

#27. In England, coffeehouses were dubbed penny-universities, because for the admission price of one cent, a person could sit and be edified all day long by scholars, merchants, travelers, community leaders, gossips, and poets.

Leah Hager Cohen

#28. I have an inability to consider a thing without imagining the story behind it as a needful force, a great petitioning weight.

Leah Hager Cohen

#29. Increasing pressure on students to subject themselves to ever more tests, whittling themselves down to rows and rows of tight black integers upon a transcript, all ready to goose-step straight into a computer.

Leah Hager Cohen

#30. There is nowhere morning does not go.

Leah Hager Cohen

#31. She glanced over abstractedly, still keeping company with her most recent thought.

Leah Hager Cohen

#32. If I have any audience, they can know that anything I am in, I would go see, with the expectation of being really satisfied.

Ian McKellen

#33. He spoke slowly; I had a sense he was groping between words for the thread of his own thoughts.

Leah Hager Cohen