"For my heart is always with Him, day and night it thinks unceasingly of its heavenly and divine Friend, to whom it wants to prove its affection. Also within it arises this desire: not to die, but to suffer long, to suffer for God, to give Him its life while praying for poor sinners."

-- Elizabeth of the Trinity

#Heart Quotes #Night Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line.”
“I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through.”
“I will continue to be intelligent, I vowed, no matter how beautiful I become.”

Source : "Aging" by Paulina Porizkova, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2010.
“It used to be that wealthy people were the leisure class, and having time off was a status symbol. That's switched now: being busy and overworked is the reality for many white-collar workers, and there's a kind of perverse currency to that, competitive busy-ness. At the other end of the income scale, there's a swath of lower-wage workers who are underemployed or unemployed, with too much unwanted leisure, and zero status for that. For shift workers, devices mean they're accessible in ways they weren't before, susceptible to that call from the boss to log more hours.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“Millions of human vermin swarm sweating along the night-arched cavernous roads. (Happily rapid chemical processes will disintegrate them all.”

Source : Norman T. Gates, Richard Aldington (1974). “The poetry of Richard Aldington: a critical evaluation and an anthology of uncollected poems”, Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
“We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.”

Source : Leszek Kolakowski (1997). “Modernity on Endless Trial”, p.158, University of Chicago Press
“The day of individual happiness has passed.”
“I want to fight for the side that fights for the living. Did I come to the right place?”

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