"Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication."

-- Simone Weil

#Love Is Quotes #Abdication Quotes #Command Quotes

“The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market.”

Source : "Revisit Pauline Hanson's infamous maiden speech". www.sbs.com.au. July 19, 2016.
“My books are inert as cordwood till a readers imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.”
“I try to stay calm and I try to enjoy myself as I perform these actions so I perform them with minimal stress on my body.”
“A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.”
“It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic; it is a change in the climate of the mind.”
“Fantasies are absolutely safe, as long as you never try to make them a reality.”

Source : Jane Green (2002). “Bookends: A Novel”, p.80, Broadway Books
“I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.”
“Everything must go its own way. One has to plow in order to sow, one has to sow in order to harvest, and what is disturbing has to be weeded out, like a bad weed.”

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