The only guide which I feel that I can follow is not the fluctuating dicta of those who are victors in the battle for popularity at a given moment, but my own understanding of the American tradition in which I was brought up.
Then, one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...you give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't...
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Neil Gaiman
We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence.
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Fred Rogers
You were born together, and together you shall be for evermore.. But let there be spaces in your togetherness.. Love one another, but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>Fill...
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Kahlil Gibran
If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
If you always depend on others then you'll never succeed. It's best to learn that lesson now.
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Kayla Krantz
More Quotes By Jane Jacobs
To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order by converting it into a disciplined work of art, is to make the mistake of attempting to substitute art for life. The results...
Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect.
Play on lively, diversified sidewalks differs from virtually all other daily incidental play offered American children today: It is play not conducted in a matriarchy. Most city architectural designers and planners are men. Curiously, they design and plan to exclude men as part of normal,...
As children get older, this incidental outdoor activity--say, while waiting to be called to eat--becomes less bumptious, physically and entails more loitering with others, sizing people up, flirting, talking, pushing, shoving and horseplay. Adolescents are always being criticized for this kind of loitering, but they...
To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.
