"I want to reconcile myself with heaven,I want to love, I want to pray,I want to believe in good."

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Source : "The Demon". Poem by Mikhail Lermontov, 1830.

Mikhail Lermontov

#Believe Quotes #Heaven Quotes #Want Quotes

“Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing's changed.”
“Court... a place where they dispense with justice.”
“Each of my records has a different focus, a different theme.”
“Suffering is an extraordinary teacher.”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 25, 2012
“Someday you will know that the heart is not always as wise as it is strong. - Uncle Eddie”
“You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You learn to watch other people, but you never watch yourself because you strive against loneliness. If you read a book, or shuffle a deck of cards, or care for a dog, you are avoiding yourself. The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all. If it were otherwise, men would never have bothered to make an alphabet, nor to have fashioned words out of what were only animal sounds, nor to have crossed continents - each man to see what the other looked like.”

Source : Beryl Markham (2015). “West With The Night”, p.182, Hachette UK
“Our true mentor in life is science.”
“Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.”

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