"Imagine an iron house without windows, absolutely indestructible, with many people fast asleep inside who will soon die of suffocation. But you know since they will die in their sleep, they will not feel the pain of death. Now if you cry aloud to wake a few of the lighter sleepers, making those unfortunate few suffer the agony of irrevocable death, do you think you are doing them a good turn?"

-- Lu Xun

#Pain Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.”

Source : Kazuo Ishiguro (1982). “A Pale View of Hills”, Thorndike Press
“A grateful and generous heart is like a magnet. When you take the time to acknowledge the abundance in your life and share the wealth, you attract even more blessings and reasons to feel grateful. In this way, receiving and giving creates a circle of energy that serves us all.”
“The Reverend grinned, his fangs flashing. "You know, I've heard this rumorâ€¦ about a member of the Brotherhood who's celibate. Yeah, go figure, a warrior who abstains. And I've heard a few other things about this male. He's down to one leg. Has a scarred sociopath for a twin. You wouldn't by any chance know of such a Brother?" Phury shook his head. "Nope.”
“You can't turn the sheriff into a toad, Hannah. It's against the rules. --Abbey Drake”
“Donald Trump, I guess one idea here if he`s flip flopping, has he bought himself cover with his base by all the inflammatory thing he`s said over the last year? But the flip side is, all of those inflammatory things, the voters he`s trying to reach by flip flopping, are they tuned out to him because of that?”
“I don't debate with liars.”
“Contrary to what we've been told, children can detect deceit in parents much easier than parents can detect deceit in children.”
“It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother's milk.”

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