"I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin."

-- Leonard Cohen

#Rain Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Reality Quotes

“Iâ€™ve watched you barely escape death several times, and each instance killed me a little inside. They may be dormant now, but we have enemies both cunning and cruel. Knowing you possess the power to defeat most of them doesnâ€™t threaten me, luv. It relieves me to my very core.”
“I speak of honor-your honor to God-your honor to country-your honor to self. I sincerely believe it to be the cure to most of our ills, both on a national or individual basis.”
“The laws by which the Divine Ruler of the universe has decreed an indissoluble connection between public happiness and private virtue, whatever apparent exceptions may delude our short-sighted judgments, never fail to vindicate their supremacy and immutability.”
“My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee.”
“We are all made from star dust and we will all return to star dust, like a cosmic palindrome.”

Source : A. S. King (2014). “Glory O'Brien's History of the Future”, p.80, Hachette UK
“Had I been a man I might have explored the Poles or climbed Mount Everest, but as it was my spirit found outlet in the air. . . .”
“while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.”
“When the eye fails to find beauty-alias solace-it commands the body to create it, or, failing that, adjusts itself to perceive virtue in ugliness.”

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