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“To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering.”

Ifs Should Ideas Facts Suffering Wish Forever Our Lives Source Eternal Unhappy Obligation Unbearable Eternal Life Live Forever

Author:Claude Vorilhon

“All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some point in our lives. In fact, if the worst thing you have ever done is speed ten miles over the speed limit on the freeway, you have put yourself and others at more risk of harm than someone smoking marijuana in the privacy of his or her living room. Yet there are people in the United States serving life sentences for first-time drug offenses, something virtually unheard of anywhere else in the world.”

Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.”

Ideas Real Facts Belief Our Lives Deny Traditional Obscure Clinging

Book:The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

Source: The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

“Love for a dog during childhood is one of the deepest and purest emotions we are ever likely to have, and it remains with us for the rest of our lives. For some people, their first experience with love is with a dog. The fact that the dog returns the love so fiercely, so openly, so unambivalently, is for many children a unique and lasting experience.”

People Firsts Children Facts Love Is Emotion Our Lives Childhood Dog Return Unique Remains Lasting

Author:Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

“"Events," I say to the Captain, "events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is blind chance, happenstance, occurrence; in an infinite universe anything can happen. After the fact we find reasons.”

Reason Facts Happens Motivation Universe Understanding Chance Our Lives Events Infinite Blind Captains Anything Can Happen Happenstance Infinite Universe

Author:Barry N. Malzberg

“Any Black person in amerika [sic], if they are being honest with themselves, have got to come to the conclusion that they don't know what it feels like to be free. We aren't free politically, economically, or socially. We have very little power over what happens in our lives. In fact, a Black person isn't free to walk down the street. Walk down the wrong street, in the wrong neighborhood at night, and you know what happens.”

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Author:Assata Shakur

“We must be careful not to choose, but to let God's Holy Spirit manage our lives; not to smooth down and explain away, but to stir up the gift and allow God's Spirit to disturb us and disturb us and disturb us until we yield and yield and yield and the possibility in God's mind for us becomes an established fact in our lives, with the rivers in evidence meeting the need of a dying world.”

Source: Smith Wigglesworth on Manifesting the Power of God: Walking in God's Anointing Every Day of the Year

“Any form of media is an opportunity to be a mirror and reflection of what we are experiencing more in the details of our life. What makes it fun and unique in a lot of ways is how that journey is changing just by the mere fact of the current time.”

Way Facts Form Opportunity Fun Our Lives Journey Media Unique Reflection Mirrors Mere Currents Details

Author:Mara Brock Akil