"For of course one is never safe when in love. Growth is demanding and may seem dangerous, for there is loss as well as gain in growth. But why go on living if one has ceased to grow? And what more demanding atmosphere for growth than love in any form, than any relationship which can call out and requires of us our most secret and deepest selves?"

-- May Sarton

#Loss Quotes #Self Quotes #Secret Quotes

“night after night I went to sleep murmuring, 'To-morrow I will be easy, strong, quick, supple, accurate, dashing and self-controlled all at once!' For not less than this is necessary in the Game of Life called Golf.”

Source : Ethel Smyth (1940). “What happened next”, Longmans, Green
“If you believe you can change - if you make it a habit - the change becomes real.”

Source : FaceBook post by Charles Duhigg from Aug 10, 2016
“Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.”
“Just as eunuchs will never know aesthetics as applied to the selection of beautiful women, so neither will pure rationalists ever know ethics, nor will they ever succeed in defining happiness, for happiness is a thing that is lived and felt, not a thing that is reasoned or defined.”
“I'm trying to protect you. From myself. I don't do..." he swung a finger back and forth between us"...this.”
“I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay.”
“Those flowers were picked by illegal immigrants. And they're not voting for you, b*tch.”
“It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first”

Source : Reginald Rose (2006). “Twelve Angry Men”, p.19, Penguin

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