"Don't ask me to give in to this body of mine. I can't afford it. Between me and my body there must be a struggle until death."

-- Margaret of Cortona

#Struggle Quotes #Giving Quotes #Body Quotes

“Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.”
“That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with a book in your hands.”
“Conceit is thinking you're great; egotism is knowing it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.”
“Money follows art. Money wants what it can't buy. Class and talent. And remember while there's a talent for making money, it takes real talent to know how to spend it.”
“You're a terrible cook, Daniel." "I know," he replied, "But it's the effort that counts." "I hope that's not the slogan for your dental practice.”

Source : Lisa Lutz (2011). “Lisa Lutz Spellman Series E-Book Box Set: The Spellman Files, Curse of the Spellmans, Revenge of the Spellmans, The Spellmans Strike Again”, p.193, Simon and Schuster
“Sedimentation in the past has often been very rapid indeed and very spasmodic. This may be called the "Phenomenon of the Catastrophic Nature of the Stratigraphical Record."”
“For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill:But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still.”

Source : Jan Struther, “The Choice”

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