"My Albert married his Maisie Brown as he said he would. But I think she never took to me, nor I to her for that matter. Perhaps it was a feeling of mutual jealousy."

-- Michael Morpurgo

#Thinking Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Matter Quotes

“The writer of these lines has nothing whatsoever to teach anyone; his words are just his contribution to our common discussion of what must inevitably be for us the most important subject which could be discussed by sentient beings.”

Source : Wei Wu Wei (2004). “Open Secret”, p.24, Sentient Publications
“No more verbally incomprehensible no more devoid of the vision thing and no more the cautious pragmatist proudly displaying the virtues of tradition and the advantages of biological seniority.”
“Money-crimes have an abstract quality. History is laden with the victims of gold, but their remains are odourless.”
“I don't think you're human if you don't get nervous.”
“What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.”
“The Blessed Sacrament is the magnet of souls. There is a mutual attraction between Jesus and the souls of men. Mary drew Him down from heaven. Our nature attracted Him rather than the nature of angels. Our misery caused Him to stoop to our lowness. Even our sins had a sort of attraction for the abundance of His mercy and the predilection of His grace. Our repentance wins Him to us. Our love makes earth a paradise to Him; and our souls lure Him as gold lures the miser, with irresistible fascination”

Source : Frederick William Faber (1855). “The blessed sacrament: or, The works and ways of God”, p.510
“Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.”
“If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run- Yours is the earth and everything that's in it, And-which is more-you'll be a man my son.”

Source : "If - " st. 4 (1910)

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