"To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost." So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions." An absence of need for illusions," he said. "A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes."

-- Anne Rice

#Grief Quotes #Mean Quotes #Eye Quotes

“Great praxis demands great piety.”
“Remember: You're not alone.”
“Hey, lady, those are some sexy-ass extensions. I guess you wont mind if I extend to you a personal invitation to party with me one-on-one in a scary motel room.”
“And we'd look at each other the way you do when you see someone on the street you think you recognize, but not quite. Someone you wish with all your heart were there but who is actually just a stranger. And you feel a kind of deep longing that hurts like a huge gash and your inability to fix it leaves you frustrated and angry and bone-deep lonely.”
“However, to modify a habit, you must decide to change it. You must consiously accept the hard work of identifying the cues and rewards that drive the habits' routines, and find alternatives. You must know you have control and be self-conscious enough to use it -- and every chapter in this book is devoted to illustrating a different aspect of why that control is real.”
“Neither death nor wisdom has a full stop. There are only commas-no destinations, only waiting rooms.”
“The largest opportunities are found in ideas that go against the grain.”
“It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.”

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