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One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. Yet I would not exchange this sadness for the complacency of those who have ceased to be responsive.
Erich Fromm — The Art of Loving
The paradox of teaching is that to teach it well you have to want to do something else. Any man who takes teaching seriously has always to resist the temptation to prophesy and to preach.
Lionel Trilling — The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society
If we truly comprehend and acknowledge that we are all imperfect creatures, we find that we become more tolerant and accepting of others' shortcomings and the world appears less dissonant, less isolating, less threatening.
Nick Cave