Sue Halpern quotes
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“Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.'”
-- Sue HalpernSource : Sue Halpern (2011). “Four Wings and a Prayer: Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly”, p.121, Vintage
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“Trust, which is a virtue, is also a habit, like prayer. It requires exercise. And just as no one can run five miles a day and cede the cardiovascular effects to someone else, no one can trust for us.”
-- Sue HalpernSource : Sue Halpern (2011). “Migrations to Solitude”, p.144, Vintage
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“Though we are made of memories, we live only in the here and now.”
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“A culture that values only what has succeeded before, where the first rule of success is that there must be something 'measured' and counted, is not a culture that will sustain alternatives to market-driven 'creativity.”
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“It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us, too--individuals whose canvas is our lives.”
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“Trusting each other is the beginning of a certain secular faith, a faith that allows us to live in families and communities and nations. Democracy, above all other forms of government, requires this faith ...”
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“We are made of memories and formed by experience. I keep wondering what kind of people we would be, and what kind of world this would be, if when bad things happened we could erase them, or somehow make them sweet.”
-- Sue Halpern
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Source : Adah Isaacs Menken (2002). “Infelicia and Other Writings”, p.80, Broadview Press
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“You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.”
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Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.93, Thomas Nelson
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Source : Abolqasem Ferdowsi (2016). “Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings”, p.87, Penguin
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“When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.”
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