"A woman's beauty is a treasure beyond price."

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Source : Sijie Dai (2002). “Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress”, Anchor

Sijie Dai

#Treasure Quotes

“The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.”

Source : Francis Spufford (2012). “Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense”, p.19, Faber & Faber
“A gift involves sacrifice. If you give away something that you no longer value or want, it cannot be a gift. It is simply a discarded item.”
“Writing is a strong easement for perplexity. My life is a map, spread out with all the rivers and hills showing.”
“I would recommend you watch the movie 'Jobs' starring Ashton Kutcher, if you don't have time to read Jobs's biography.”
“We begin to forgive by choosing to forgive . . . by deciding, not by feeling. Our feelings don't lead us to forgive. Most times, our feelings lead us the other way. That's why a person has to decide to forgive first. Our feelings always follow along behind our decisions.”
“Really believing in "once upon a time". Believing that it will draw you in, take you with me to a place you've never been before.”

Source : Cameron Dokey (2013). “Kissed: Belle; Sunlight and Shadow; Winter's Child”, p.583, Simon and Schuster
“Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of the words and phrases we use are "prefabricated" in the sense that we don't coin new ones every time we speak.”
“I've seen so many of my friends and collaborators struggle and face the challenge of feeling like what they're working so hard to create and put into the world isn't important or appreciated... it's like being in love with someone who won't give you the time of day.”

Source : Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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