Yarelis Cartagena Quotes & Sayings

No one has written adequately of what happens when enough of the body's naked surface is pressed against another human being's. It is a slow dismantling of ego, a suspension of the instinct to distinguish Me from Not Me. — Kenji Yoshino

Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart. — Mary Anne Radmacher

I hope I would leave a legacy of joy -a legacy of real compassion, — Rich Mullins

You won't know until it's over. You won't find me in time. — Julie Anne Peters

I don't even like to be naked in front of myself! — Camryn Manheim

If God is humanity connected, then the internet is God incarnate; a manifestation of our connection, a rudimentary form of hyperconnected humanity. — Jim Gilliam

Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons. — Richard Wright

I value and trust those w^ho love and praise my aspiration rather than my performance. — Henry David Thoreau

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another; rather, it teaches us to abide with the fact that, in their own way, all things are true, and helps us, in the face of this terrifying knowledge, continually push ourselves in the direction of Open the Hell Up. — George Saunders

a craving for the cloud of unknowing beyond knowledge and for the silence beyond speech, — Susan Sontag

Ancestors who had held themselves higher than God, and had been brought lower than man. — Diana Peterfreund

Since early childhood, their emotions have been conditioned by the tribal premise that one must "belong," one must be "in," one must swim with the "mainstream," one must follow the lead of "those who know." A man's frustrated mind adds another emotion to the tribal conditioning: a blindly bitter resentment of his own intellectual subservience. Modern men are gregarious and antisocial at the same time. They have no inkling of what constitutes a rational human association. — Ayn Rand

We all make basic assumptions about things in life, but sometimes those assumptions are WRONG. We must never trust in what we assume, only in what we KNOW. — Darren Shan

Everyone has these ideas, especially about the middle of the country, about people being backwards and three-toothed. — Kelli O'Hara