"Anatole France frankly advised, "When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it." Yes, indeed, but do more. Copy many well-said things. Pierce them together. Assimilate them. Make the process of reading them a way to form the mind and shape the soul. As anthologies can never be complete, we will never exhaust the ways quotations can enrich our lives."

-- Gary Saul Morson

#Reading Quotes #Soul Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I know of nothing which I would choose to have as the subject of my ambition for life than to be kept faithful to my God till death.”
“When school district officials literally laughed at the notion that the Me Generation â€” this was the label for my generation â€” would jump at the chance to teach in urban and rural communities, their concerns, too, went unheard. My very greatest asset was that I simply did not understand what was impossible.”
“We conquer ourselves by learning patience, for she gives to us our longed for victory only in the surrender of self.”
“People believe that if you can shut your Tourette's off for a period of time, then you can always shut it off. I try to explain to people that if I spent my whole life trying to control my tics, that's all I would have time for.”
“I find it really enriching to make pots which people are using and which they come in contact with, not only visually in their homes but tactilely - when they pick them up, when they wash them after dinner, and so on and so forth.”
“We all have our fears, our insecurities. I'm not different from anyone else.”

Source : "John Ondrasik Interview from Five For Fighting". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Democracy can only be measured on the existence of an opposition”
“There is that awful moment when you realize that you're falling in love. That should be the most joyful moment, and actually it's not. It's always a moment that's full of fear because you know, as night follows day, the joy is going to rapidly be followed by some pain or other. All the angst of a relationship.”

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