"The mistake we make, is when we seek to be beloved, instead of loving."

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Source : "Gold Dust: A Collection of Golden Counsels for the Sanctification of Daily Life".

Charlotte Mary Yonge

#Love Quotes #Mistake Quotes

“I've got four lovely children, ten lovely grandchildren, and I left parliament to devote more time to politics, and I think that what is really going on in Britain is a growing sense of alienation. People don't feel anyone listens to them.”
“There has to be pain. That's the rule.”
“The world cannot afford to lose the talents of half it's people if we are to solve the many problems that beset us.”
“Donâ€™t believe something just because you want to, and donâ€™t embrace an idea just because youâ€™ve always believed it. Believe what is biblical. Test all your assumptions against the precious words God gave us in the Bible.”
“I'm pretty awesome at making salad dressings.”
“Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally,”
“Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own. Susan Sontag warned against overburdening an illness with metaphors. But this is not a metaphor. Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.”

Source : Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.388, Simon and Schuster
“Oh, God, who does not exist, you hate women, otherwise you'd have made them different. And Jesus, who snubbed your mother, you hate them more.”

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