"Enough of acting the infant who has been told so often how he was found under a cabbage that in the end he remembers the exact spot in the garden and the kind of life he led there before joining the family circle."

-- Samuel Beckett

#Garden Quotes #Circles Quotes #Atheism Quotes

“Do you conceive of your Lord as less because? He shows that humiliation is the best road to exaltation (cf. Mt. 23:12); because He humbles Himself for the sake of the soul that is bent down to the ground, that He may even exalt within Himself that which is bent double under a weight of sin?... If so, you must blame the physician for stooping over suffering and putting up with evil smells in order to give health to the sick?”
“The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.”
“Therapy is about every kids nightmare when people are telling you that you need to get help but all you really want is a hug.”
“In economies in which women work, men and women in relationships make about the same amount of money, or women make more. Women are 40 percent of breadwinners in America, and that number's been rising.”
“She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt thatâ€™s one of the reasons why they did.”

Source : Zelda Fitzgerald (1992). “The Collected Writings”, New York : Collier Books ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International
“What is a good man? Simply one whose life is useful to the world. And a bad man is simply one whose life is harmful to others. There are, however, those who are harmful and yet enjoy a good reputation, and who manage to profit by a show of usefulness. These are the worst of all.”
“The ancestral deed is thought and done, And in a million Edens fall A million Adams drowned in darkness, For small is great and great is small, And a blind seed all.”

Source : EDWIN MUIR (1960). “COLLECTED POEMS”
“Everything good that happened to me happened by accident.”

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