"to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path."

-- Agnes Repplier

#Kindness Quotes #Giving Quotes #Quality Quotes

“Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.”
“and did you get what you wanted from this life even so? i did.”
“Reading books is fantastic. I didn't do it until ten years ago. It's great.”
“A vagrant is everywhere at home.”
“I think now I'm up to something like 85 different titles that I've published.”
“My opinion has always been this. That you ought never to give up as long as you live, even though they have stolen everything from you. If nothing else, you can always call the air you breath your own, or at any rate you can claim that you have it on loan. Yes, lass, last night I ate stolen bread and left my son among men who are going to use pick-handles on the authorities, so I thought I might as well look you up this morning.”

Source : "Independent People" by Halldór Laxness, translated by J. A. Thompson, published by Vintage Books, (Book Two), 1997.
“When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?”
“I began to realize that by carefully selecting the depth of field and making it narrow, I could create a sense of movement and reality that was in fact not there.”

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