"It is my melancholy fate to like so many people I profoundly disagree with and often heartily dislike people who agree with me."

-- Mary Kingsley

#Fate Quotes #People Quotes #Opinion Quotes

“I felt sick. Buying Kistenâ€™s and my safety from Piscary was so wrong. But it was either that or deal with a demon, and Iâ€™d rather keep my soul clean and let my morals get dingy.”
“Psychiatrists always say, Oh, we're very professional. I use exercise as my medication.”
“You don't take music seriously if you wear your left ear bud in your right ear and your right ear bud in your left ear.”
“Thinking of holding back is blowing it more than pushing your hardest and falling.”
“Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behaviour not otherwise excusable.”
“I have found that the greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It is the ultimate source of success in life.”
“Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present.”

Source : Alexander Maclaren (1869). “Sermons preached in Manchester”, p.57
“Liquor is such a nice substitute for facing adult life.”

Source : Dorothy B. Hughes (2017). “In a Lonely Place”, p.102, New York Review of Books

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