"Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain."

-- Elizabeth Bowen

#Want Quotes #Reason Quotes #Reconcile Quotes

“If we don't have souls then who am I talking to when I keep telling myself to be good?”
“He alone is great Who by a life heroic conquers fate.”

Source : Sarah Knowles Bolton (1923). “Sarah K. Bolton: Pages from an Intimate Autobiography”
“People have a right to protest; they have a right to make their opinion. They can be very upset about what they consider to be a murder of a person in custody, but you cannot destroy property. First person does it goes to jail.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone else comes along and beats me to it.”
“It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.”
“Democracy can be sustained and developed only by people who understand its essence.”
“Nationalism and extremism ... are spreading today like a cancerous growth in the fabric of people's national self-awareness.”
“Life is too short for any man to hold bitterness in his heart.”

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