"Somebody must take a chance. There are monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did."

-- Lincoln Steffens

#Men Quotes #Jumping Quotes #Tree Quotes

“Some say that love is the sweetest feeling, the purest form of joy, but that isn't right. It's not love--it's relief.”
“Feeling alone guides the mind.”

Source : Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.71, Courier Corporation
“I exaggerated even before I began to exaggerate, because it's true â€” nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.”

Source : Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.107, Simon and Schuster
“Itâ€™s no longer about the Lost Boys. They keep trying to make their way out, then they meet other people and empathize with them. Itâ€™s a story that a lot of people are going to discover their purpose from. When someone doesnâ€™t know their purpose, they get lost.”
“The person who loves God cannot help loving every man as himself, even though he is grieved by the passions of those who are not yet purified. But when they amend their lives, his delight is indescribable and knows no bounds. A soul filled with thoughts of sensual desire and hatred is unpurified. If we detect any trace of hatred in our hearts against any man whatsoever for committing any fault, we are utterly estranged from love for God, since love for God absolutely precludes us from hating any man.”
“I read all these stories that I don't know anything about politics. But I must know something. I've had some good victories in Congress, and I've survived this town for four years.”
“My brother said that at Eton, students were told caning builds character. I suppose girls are caned less because we aren't thought to have much character." "Which is the sort of thing males say when they don't know any women.”
“She's not going to let go until she sees for herself that there's nothing left to hold on to.”

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