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Quote by Stephen Levine

“When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.”

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Stephen Levine was an American poet, born on July 17, 1937, and passed away on January 17, 2016. His poetry is known for its profound emotion and philosophical insights, and has been beloved by readers worldwide. more

“Who was I, really? I was the sole occupant of my mother's totalitarian state, my own personal history rewritten to fit the story she was telling that day. There were so many missing pieces. I was starting to find some of them, working my way upriver, collecting a secret cache of broken memories in a shoebox.”

Way States Stories Mother Memories My Own Secret Pieces Missing Broken Fit Starting My Way Sole Collecting Personal History Totalitarian State Missing Piece Cache

Book:White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

“Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn't like America where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time.”

Thinking Earth America Past Empty Clean Forgotten Ruins Berlin

Book:White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

“Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up.”

Men Firsts Screwed Up Oleanders

Book:White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

“Life should always be like this. ... Like lingering over a good meal.”

Should Meals Lingering Good Meals

Author:Janet Fitch

“Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.”

Worst Possibility Despair Panic Worst Things

Book:White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

“The big companies are like steel and activists are like heat. Activists soften the steel, and then I can bend it into pretty grillwork and make reforms.”

I Can Bigs Company Reform Heat Activist Steel Big Companies

Book:Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals

Source: Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals

“language is never neutral”

Language

Author:Paulo Freire

“We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.”

Enough Opinion Not Sure Burned

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.”

Men Needs Humans Doe Self Individual Social Animal Common Sufficient Beast Human Society Self Sufficient Common Life

Author:Aristotle

“Honesty was a tough customer... Once you started allowing yourself some honesty, it couldn't easily be contained or limited to one part of your life. It was like poison ivy or a bossy houseguest. Once it was there, you couldn't tell it what to do. You had to really fight to keep it from taking over.”

Fighting Honesty Tough Customers Poison Allowing Ivy Bossy Poison Ivy

Book:The Last Summer (of You and Me)

Source: The Last Summer (of You and Me)

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