"Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character."

-- James Russell Lowell

#Inspirational Quotes #Loneliness Quotes #Character Quotes

“America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.”

Source : 1949 Letter, 26 Oct.
“She expected the pain, when it came. But she gasped at its sharpness; it was not like any pain she had felt before. He kissed her and slowed and would have stopped. But she laughed, and said that this one time she would consent to hurt, and bleed, at his touch. He smiled into her neck and kissed her again and she moved with him through the pain. The pain became a warmth that grew. Grew, and stopped her breath. And took her breath and her pain and her mind away from her body, so that there was nothing but her body and his body and the light and fire they made together.”

Source : Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.242, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I have fun. I always have fun. I don't really get in a hurry about anything. I just try to go with the flow and have fun, and that's how I try to play baseball.”
“History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you weren't looking -- an unknowable infinity of events, which although out of control, controlled everything.”

Source : Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Red Mars”, p.348, Spectra
“A satisfied customer. We should have him stuffed.”
“Parents must bring light and truth into their homes by one family prayer, one scripture study session, one family home evening, one book read aloud, one song, and one family meal at a time. They know that the influence of righteous, conscientious, persistent, daily parenting is among the most powerful and sustaining forces for good in the world. The health of any society, the happiness of its people, their prosperity, and their peace all find common roots in the teaching of children in the home.”

Source : "Mothers Teaching Children in the Home". General Conference, www.lds.org. April 2010.
“If youâ€™re looking for the origins of film culture in America, look no further than Amos Vogel.”
“Perhaps Americans should recognize that if they want to keep their privacy, they should ask the federal government to do only the things that the Constitution allows.”

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