"To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain."

-- Holly Near

#Pain Quotes #Real Quotes #Blessing Quotes

“true courtesy ... is real kindness kindly expressed.”
“The flag of our stately battles, not struggles of wrath and greed, Its stripes were a holy lesson, its spangles a deathless creed: 'T was red with the blood of freemen and white with the fear of the foe; And the stars that fight in their courses 'gainst tyrants its symbols know.”

Source : Julia Ward Howe (1866). “Later Lyrics”, p.25
“An anagram of Axl Rose is oral sex. Why do I know? Because when I'm not playing music I love solving erotic jumbles.”
“Sometimes there are things worth risking your life for. It was Jesus who said if you want to save your life, you have to lose it.”
“I feel like I've been a Yankee my whole life.”
“I feel that the BBC World Service is not as versatile as it used to be - or perhaps I'm not listening at the right times.”
“The more we consume, the more we want. And the more we want, the more we have to work to pay for all these things and insure them and then get stressed about them and protect them and get bigger houses. I think true freedom comes with letting go of them.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“Say a word, say a thousand to me on the telephone and I shall choose the wrong one to cling to as though you had said it after long deliberation when only I provoked it from you, I will cling to it from among a thousand, to be provoked and hurl it back with something I mean no more than you meant that, something for you to cling to and retreat clinging to.”

Source : William Gaddis (1955). “The Recognitions: A Novel”, Harcourt

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