"The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape"

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Source : Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

Alice James

#Lying Quotes #Failure Quotes #Luck Quotes

“New York is my, you know, second hometown.”

Source : "TalkAsia" with Kristie Lu Stout, www.cnn.com. February 11, 2012.
“For one, thing, the media are dominated by the irreligious. So are universities.”

Source : "America Has a Prayer". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. December 6, 2012.
“Modern American marriage is like a wire fence. The woman's the wire -the posts are the husband's.”
“Through intense deep meditation you reach a state that is beyond thought, beyond change, beyond imagination, beyond differences and duality. Once you can stay in that state for a while and come out of it without losing any of it, then the inner divine love will begin to pour through you. You will not see people as different, separate individuals. You will see your own Self in everyone around you. Then the flow of love from within you will be constant and unbroken.”
“Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage”
“You get taken in, and they give you a jumpsuit, which are a lot more comfortable than you'd think. It depends on where you go - what floor or what cellblock. For me, you go in, and you're just in with a bunch of other people who are in serving their time. You're just in there. It's just boring. You're in detention, essentially.”
“This is a pivotal time for urban regeneration. We must take a long term view.”
“My significance is found in pointing to Someone far more significant.”

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