"Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mundane glow with an aura of self-transcendence. Yet why these glorious sunsets, I ask myself, if nature does not speak to us with tongues of fire."

-- J. M. Coetzee

#Sunset Quotes #Fire Quotes #Self Quotes

“Whatever you can imagine is waiting for you, fully created in the invisible, and the way to make it visible is to harness the force of love by imagining and feeling what you love.”
“I don't practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals, and I have a very good data bank of medical information and there is a key thing for a writer knowing where to go. I know where to go to get the information that I need.”
“The era of implementation has started. The world is now committed to universal treatment.”
“It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.”
“It wasn't quite a question. It was more of an invitation to tell him whatever I chose. Eldric game me a choice, and it was this that made me want to tell him everything.”
“PERENNIAL wisdom from divine revelation and human experience dictates that all earthly things great or small, beautiful or ugly, good or bad, sad or happy, fool...ish or wise must finally come to an end. It is from this sobering reality that the end of executive rule has finally come for Robert Mugabe who has had his better days after a quarter of a century in power.”
“The best way for someone to govern is to set an example.”
“I'm not perfect. Remember that, and try to forgive me when I fail you.”

Source : Elizabeth Lowell, Barbara McCauley (2003). “Summer Gold”, Silhouette

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