"Talent and worth are the only eternal grounds of distinction. To these the Almighty has affixed His everlasting patent of nobility. Knowledge and goodness,--these make degrees in heaven, and they must be the graduating scale of a true democracy."

-- Catharine Sedgwick

#Heaven Quotes #Democracy Quotes #Patents Quotes

“I thought you said you were the one in charge!" Ce'Nedra exclaimed. I lied." Silk said. "It's a vice I have.”
“After independence was gained, one of the first Acts passed by the Greek government was for the protection and preservation of national monuments.”
“To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.”
“I was saying "I'm the greatest" long before I believed it.”
“Dear Leonard. To look life in the face. Always to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last to know it. To love it for what it is, and then, to put it away. Leonard. Always the years between us. Always the years. Always the love. Always the hours.”

Source : "The Hours". www.imdb.com. 2002.
“If you can let go of (the Tao) with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever.”
“Life is revealed as a place to contribute and we as contributors. Not because we have done a measurable amount of good, but because that is the story we tell.”

Source : Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander (2002). “The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life”, p.51, Penguin
“It was my mother who taught me the one worthwhile thing: when they ask if you like what you see in the mirror, pretend that what they mean is what's behind you--the shower curtain, the tile, the wallpaper, whatever's there.”

Source : Gary Lutz (2002). “Stories in the Worst Way”, 3rd Bed Books

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