Good Morning! Today is the birthday of the following people who said:
James Baldwin (1924 – 1987):
“Love does not begin and end
the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a
growing up.”
and
“You think your pain and your
heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It
was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very
things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever
been alive.”
and
“Not everything that is faced
can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
and
“Freedom is not something that
anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free
as they want to be”
Benjamin Barber (1939 - ):
“I don't divide the world into
the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures, those who make it
or those who don't. I divide the world into learners and non-learners.”
Isabel Allende (1942 - ):
“The longer I live, the more
uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.”
and
“Write what should not be
forgotten.”
and
“The library is inhabited by
spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
and
“Accept the children the way we
accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have
expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to change, you love them as
they are.”
Caleb Carr (1955 - ):
“It is the greatest truth of
our age: Information is not knowledge.”
and
“Every human being must find
his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to
facilitate whatever method he chooses.”
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