"... and yet he could also be very charming, in a bookish, infinitely apologetic way."

-- Paula McLain

#Way Quotes #Apologetic Quotes #Charming Quotes

“I can't believe I've done what I've done.”
“Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.”
“Upon us lies the responsibility neither to neglect things because they are old nor to reject them because they are new.”

Source : Percy Dearmer (1909). “Body and soul: an enquiry into the effect of religion upon health, with a description of Christian works of healing from the New Testament to the present day”
“I get really frustrated if people don't smile.”
“This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies and illusions. A world where greed is our God and wisdom is sin, where division is key and unity is fantasy, where the ego-driven cleverness of the mind is praised, rather than the intelligence of the heart.”
“If you really look at hip-hop dance, it's really a rites-of-passage thing. You never see the arms release down. They're always up in fighting position. It's going to war. What do we say? We say your're going to battle. You go out there and fight.”
“Penning an advice column for the literary website The Rumpus, [Strayed] worked anonymously, using the pen name Sugar, replying to letters from readings suffering everything from loveless marriages to abusive, drug-addicted brothers to disfiguring illnesses. The result: intimate, in-depth essays that not only took the letter writer's life into account but also Strayed's. Collected in a book, they make for riveting, emotionally charged reading (translation: be prepared to bawl) that leaves you significantly wiser for the experience. . . . Moving. . . . compassionate.”
“We would make our heroes shallow.... We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength.”

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