"Southern culture has fostered a type of imagination that has been influenced by Christianity of a not too unorthodox kind and by a strong devotion to the Bible, which has kept our minds attached to the concrete and the living symbol."

-- Flannery O'Connor

#Life Quotes #Strong Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them.”

Source : L Frank Baum (2014). “OZ Complete Collection with illustrated Wizard of Oz”, p.381, Ageless Reads
“There are few greater treasures to be acquired in youth than great poetry-and prose-stored in the memory. At the time one may resent the labor of storing. But they sleep in the memory and awake in later years, illuminated by life and illuminating it.”

Source : Richard Livingstone (2013). “On Education”, p.101, Cambridge University Press
“Love that I bear within my breast how is my armour melted how my heart”
“With the amount of money I have, it's difficult raising children the way I was raised.”
“But I am living in the midst of the uncertainty and risk, amid things that can and do bring physical destruction, because I am running from things that can destroy my soul: complacency, comfort, and ignorance. I am much more terrified of living a comfortable life in a self-serving society and failing to follow Jesus than I am of any illness or tragedy.”
“I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the tabloids.”
“You really can change the world if you care enough.”
“To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure?”

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