Agnes Meyer Driscoll on living
Agnes Meyer Driscoll8 quotes“Tension is a prerequisite for creative living.”
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We are all motivated far more than we care to admit by characteristics inherited from our ancestors which individual experiences of childhood can modify, repress, or enhance, but cannot erase.
Agnes Meyer DriscollAgnes Meyer Driscoll We can never achieve absolute truth but we can live hopefully by a system of calculated probabilities.
Agnes Meyer DriscollAgnes Meyer Driscoll What the Nation must realize is that the home, when both parents work, is non-existent. Once we have honestly faced that fact, we must act accordingly.
Agnes Meyer DriscollAgnes Meyer Driscoll The children are always the chief victims of social chaos.
Agnes Meyer DriscollAgnes Meyer Driscoll Fortunate are the people whose roots are deep.
Agnes Meyer DriscollAgnes Meyer Driscoll Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained.
Agnes Meyer DriscollAgnes Meyer Driscoll We have forgotten that democracy must live as it thinks and think as it lives.
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And that is how time heals, not by erasing but by blurring all the memories.
VesmirVesmir Let me follow my dream. Let me follow my queen.
Moses AlexanderMoses Alexander Be kind to yourself, the way you would be to someone you love.
Courtney PeppernellCourtney Peppernell We need to surrender ourselves to the water before we can climb the spiral ladder.
Nikol MejdnNikol Mejdn You gave me the courage to rise but my darling robin why did you fly leaving me behind these four walls all alone?
Ophelia ScarlettOphelia Scarlett Giving up your dreams is easy, but ask yourself is it really easy to live without dreams?
Sania AbbasSania Abbas It’s funny how we say a person ‘made’ us when they actually broke us. Sort of like how I say ‘funny’ – but I actually mean sad.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki You can’t keep living backwards – Reminiscing on what was, And terrified to pursue What could be.
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AberjhaniAberjhani We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of war
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