"Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves."

-- Anna Quindlen

#Building Quotes #Enough Quotes #Decorating Quotes

“For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.”
“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.”
“I'm convinced that democracy cannot be exported from one country to another, like you cannot expert revolutions, ideology.”
“The obvious can sometimes be illuminating when perceived in an unhabitual way.”
“There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.”
“It's never good to just imitate somebody. That never works, because then you're not filling it with anything.”
“I fit into the quirky, character class type of actor.”
“In all thy actions think God sees thee; and in all His actions labor to see Him; that will make thee fear Him; this will move thee to love Him; the fear of God is the beginning of knowledge, and the knowledge of God is the perfection of love.”

Source : John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.378, Delphi Classics

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