Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.
To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts… - Lillian Smith
To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts…
- Lillian Smith
When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die. - Lillian Smith
When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
The point of life is to find the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality. - Lillian Smith
The point of life is to find the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality.
The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from maki… - Lillian Smith
The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from maki…
Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. - Lillian Smith
Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
The question in crisis or ordeal is not: Are you going to be an extremist? The question is: What kind of extremist are you going to be? - Lillian Smith
The question in crisis or ordeal is not: Are you going to be an extremist? The question is: What kind of extremist are you going to be?
I broke every barrier I could to see things as they are. - Lillian Smith
I broke every barrier I could to see things as they are.
To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are … - Lillian Smith
To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are …
Belief in Some One's right to punish you is the fate of all children in Judaic-Christian culture. But nowhere else, perhaps, have the rich seed-beds … - Lillian Smith
Belief in Some One's right to punish you is the fate of all children in Judaic-Christian culture. But nowhere else, perhaps, have the rich seed-beds …
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