"In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius."

-- Thomas Mann

#Book Quotes #Giving Quotes #Genius Quotes

“I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity.”
“I'd never taken to four foot creatures who had the uncanny ability to point out all my flaws in thirty second flat. And just for the record, I can too read without moving my lips.”
“Faith is powerful spiritual dynamic, and it is something God responds to and blesses.”
“Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.”
“What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy and smug they might be. Are you a feminist? Hahaha. Of course you are.”

Source : "How to Be a Woman". Book by Caitlin Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2011.
“When we see people as losers, we treat them with contempt. When we see them as lost, we treat them with compassion.”
“ForTime, not Corydon, hath conquered thee.”
“A fellow who cannot throw a flapjack is sadly lacking in the skill one expects to find in a real woodcrafter.”

Source : Daniel Carter Beard (2015). “The Book of Camp-Lore and Woodcraft”, p.76, Library of Alexandria

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