"People do pretty ugly things to make themselves feel better, this I do know."

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Source : Mariah Fredericks (2012). “The Girl in the Park”, p.14, Schwartz & Wade

Mariah Fredericks

#Feel Better Quotes #People Quotes #Ugly Quotes

“Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.”

Source : Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”
“The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself. I was a child then, I had no idea what the world would be like. I wished to trust myself on the waters and the sea. Everything was romantic in my imagination. The woods were peopled by the mysterious good folk. The Lords and Ladies of the last century walked with me along the overgrown paths, and picked the old fashioned flowers among the box and rose hedges of the garden.”
“Meditation clarifies our minds and opens our hearts, and brings us to unusual depth and stability of happiness, whatever life brings.”
“Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.”
“Life ... is never the way one imagines it. It surprises you, it amazes you, and it makes you laugh or cry when you don't expect it.”
“Authentic needs are the needs that are always met by the Universe.”
“For me, architecture is a social act,”

Source : "A Sense of Place" by Calvin Tomkins, www.newyorker.com. September 23, 2013.
“If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.”

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