Sue Halpern Professions : WriterBorn : February 12, 1955 Browse All Authors Top 7 quotes by Sue Halpern 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 trustprayerrunning Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.' Sue Halpern exclusivepassionwork Though we are made of memories, we live only in the here and now. Sue Halpern here-and-nowmadememories 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 sweetmemoriespeople 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 alternativescreativityculture 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 essentialssolitudesoul 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 trusting-each-othercommunitygovernment Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writerAll Authors
