"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."

-- Mark Twain

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Broken Heart Quotes

“The person who is working on his or her family history fits the description of one who is fulfilling his or her duty. I know the effort, I know the expense. I know the difficulties through which one may go to uncover one name. I know our Heavenly Father is aware of these efforts. And those for whom we perform sacred ordinances are aware of our efforts. Oftentimes, in a miraculous way, there shall appear before us a clear pathway through a field of turbulence.”
“There's something special for everyone to do. Remember, no experience is a bad experience unless you gain nothing from it.”
“It is very hard to stay alive just for your own sake. It is very hard to stare into day after day without another familiar face staring back. It turns your heart into a purposeless muscle.”
“Thank God for your mother.”
“I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things. This much, at least, I've figured out. I know this much is true.”

Source : Wally Lamb (1998). “I Know This Much Is True”, p.897, Cambridge University Press
“Keep doing what you're doing no matter what anyone says. Defy your own doubt.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.”
“My problem is I say what I'm thinking before I think what I'm saying.”

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