"There is nothing in the whole world so painful as feeling that one is not liked."

-- Sei Shonagon

#Feelings Quotes #World Quotes #Painful Quotes

“Combinations with a queen sacrifice are among the most striking and memorable.”
“Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.”
“At no time will we be more Christlike than when we are a friend.”
“In the Great War, there is no room for the faint-hearted, the cowardly. A criminal or an anarchist will be better conditioned than a bourgeois, indecisive or cowardly man. They only need a push in the right direction. Only one who is born a hero or a warrior has a place in our order. Only the Lord of the Pure Will can march to the end, breaking in the gates of the City of Eternal Life. Because will, through its perseverance, creates the thing it contemplates. Only the Wild Hordes of Odin and Parsifal will achieve the Graal.”
“The government favors the most diplomatic language. That's why any letter to them should always start with, "Dear turkeys and foul maggots..."”
“To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.”
“A miracle is nothing more or less than this. Anyone who has come into a knowledge of his true identity, of his oneness with the all-pervading wisdom and power, this makes it possible for laws higher than the ordinary mind knows of to be revealed to him.”
“Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.”

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