"Some truths should perhaps be left unsaid. Some doors unopened. An angel once told me to let go of the ills I held too close, to let go of the flaws that shaped me."

-- Mark Lawrence

#Letting Go Quotes #Angel Quotes #Doors Quotes

“Emotions. Swelling waves that we are so often powerless to navigate. Is there some meaning to them? Of course, you just have to learn how to properly manage them.”
“The reports of the eclipse parties not only described the scientific observations in great detail, but also the travels and experiences, and were sometimes marked by a piquancy not common in official documents.”

Source : Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers
“My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn't let him cut my nails.”
“European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle; they treated it no longer as a positive quality but as a dangerous illusion.”

Source : Virginia Postrel (2013). “The Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual Persuasion”, p.22, Simon and Schuster
“The garden [of Eden] is the realm of pure beauty from which man is expelled when he becomes interested in ethics, in the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The return into paradise, the homecoming, depends on him penetrating the veils of morality to glimpse again the lineaments of lost beauty.”
“You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.”
“Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.”

Source : "U-Turn: What If You Woke Up One Morning and Realized You Were Living the". Book by Bruce Grierson, p.53, April 3, 2007.
“I've read The Satanic Verses and I thought it a nasty, sneering, free-thinking book... I can understand why the book is offensive and it didn't seem to me to be anything but offensive when I read it.”

Source : "Singular Encounters" by Naim Attallah, Quartet Books, (p. 142), 1990.

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