"it is rather depressing to think that one will still be oneself when one is dead, but I dare say one won't be so critical then."

-- Angela Thirkell

#Depressing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Self Quotes

“When God accepts a sinner, He is, in fact, only accepting Christ. He looks into the sinner's eyes, and He sees His own dear Son's image there, and He takes him in.”
“Worry may not change the outcome, but it definately affects the outlook.”
“Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues.”
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
“There is no original truth, only original error.”
“In our parts such characters sometimes turn up that, however many years ago you met them, you can never recall them without an inner trembling.”

Source : Nikolai Leskov (2013). “The Enchanted Wanderer: and Other Stories”, p.3, Vintage
“What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife?”
“Being in Nirvana was amazing an experience that will never happen again for me. And I look on them as some of the best and worst times of my life.”

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