"Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for."

-- Francine Rivers

“If you and I shall, like the believing shepherds, watch and long for His appearing, one day we, too, shall hear a music grander and sweeter even than the song of angels, when the great Composer shall transpose all the strains of earth from the minor into the major, when the wail of nature shall give way to the glad harmony of the everlasting jubilee.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 555, 1895.
“Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.”
“I can't live without scissors. I don't have any tattoos, but I thought if I ever got a tattoo, it should probably be scissors.”
“Black-and-white photos tell the truth. That's why insurance companies use them.”

Source : Allan Sekula, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh (2002). “Fish story”
“Education equals choices. I have been blessed with the choice to be anything I ever wanted to be, and I truly owe my happiness to my family and education.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.”
“I think it starts to feel really redundant when you start to do something the same way over and over again. I don't think it's good to become so dependent on a certain writing process.”
“The real question is whether all your pondering and analyses will convince you that life is worth living. That's what it all comes down to.”

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