"One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love."

-- Marya Mannes

#Forgiveness Quotes #Poor Quotes

“Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.”
“Nations grow corrupt, love bondage more than liberty; bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.”
“Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites.”
“If you feel you can't forgive, ask God to penetrate your unforgiveness with His love. When we have to do the impossible, God says that the way it happens is "not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit" (Zechariah 4:6). This means that certain things will not be accomplished by human strength, but only by the power of God. The Holy Spirit will enable us to forgive even the unforgivable.”
“I have always thought of our Service as an institution, more than any other bureau, engaged in a field essentially of morality--the aim of man to rise above himself, and to choose the option of quality rather than material superfluity.”
“I abhor, too, the roaming lover, nor do I drink from every well; I loathe all things in common”

Source : Epigram 28 in R. Pfeiffer (ed.) 'Callimachus' (1949-53)
“I don't have secrets in my life. Everything is out there.”
“Privacy is something that we maintain for the good of ourselves and others. Secrecy we keep to separate ourselves from others, even those we love.”

Source : Mary Alice Monroe (2012). “The Beach House”, p.133, Harlequin

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