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Sue Halpern Quotes

Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.'

Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.'

Sue Halpern
Work, Passion, Exclusive
Sue Halpern (2011). “Four Wings and a Prayer: Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly”, p.121, Vintage

Trust, which is a virtue, is also a habit, like prayer. It requires exercise. And just as no one can run five miles a day and cede the cardiovascular effects to someone else, no one can trust for us.

Sue Halpern
Trust, Running, Prayer
Sue Halpern (2011). “Migrations to Solitude”, p.144, Vintage

Though we are made of memories, we live only in the here and now.

Sue Halpern
Memories, Made, Here And Now

Trusting each other is the beginning of a certain secular faith, a faith that allows us to live in families and communities and nations. Democracy, above all other forms of government, requires this faith.

Sue Halpern
Government, Trusting Each Other, Community

We are made of memories and formed by experience. I keep wondering what kind of people we would be, and what kind of world this would be, if when bad things happened we could erase them, or somehow make them sweet.

Sue Halpern
Sweet, Memories, People

It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us, too--individuals whose canvas is our lives.

Sue Halpern
Soul, Solitude, Essentials

A culture that values only what has succeeded before, where the first rule of success is that there must be something 'measured' and counted, is not a culture that will sustain alternatives to market-driven 'creativity.

Sue Halpern
Creativity, Culture, Alternatives

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