"Mom had the kind of love for her that you could feel, like it was part of the atmosphere"

-- Peter Abrahams

#Mom Quotes #Mother Quotes #Atmosphere Quotes

“Itâ€™s a beautiful, distinctive art, and shoes are like the foundations. If the foundations arenâ€™t right, the building wonâ€™t stand upright, and if a womanâ€™s balance isnâ€™t right, nothing else is.”
“My first joint I smoked onstage in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I smoked my first joint live.”
“if a builder builds a house and the house falls and kills some one in the house the owners may kill the builder.”
“Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had, but Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was.”
“The greatest act of faith is that which rises to your lips in total darkness together with the sacrifices, sufferings and wholehearted efforts of a determined will to do good. This act of faith strikes through the darkness of your soul like lightening. In the midst of tempest it raises you up and leads you to God.”
“It's a cinch that if you read it in an occult periodical or paperback, everyone's doing it. That should be your cue to avoid such stuff, lest you be relegated to the same readership level.”
“If there's a lot of fear that's going on, if there's a lot of anxiety, it's manifesting itself in your nocturnal world so that analyzing it can help open up basically thoughts about what you need to do during the day. So a lot of people who subscribe to the psychoanalysis, the Jungian thought will really focus a lot on dreams, the meaning, and how it can be used to help you during the day.”
“What shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? Keep the commandments.”

Source : Lancelot Andrewes (1856). “Devotions”, p.133

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