"Father asks frequently in his letters whether I fancy any Ayorthaian young lady or any in our acquaintance at home. I say no I suppose I'm confessing another fault: pride. I don't want him to know that I love if my affections are not returned"

-- Gail Carson Levine

#Father Quotes #Home Quotes #Pride Quotes

“The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.”

Source : Alan Hollinghurst (2014). “The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic”, p.146, Pan Macmillan
“Where there is no mathematics, there is no freedom.”

Source : Edward Frenkel (2014). “Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality”, p.5, Basic Books
“We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about.”
“Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: "Just say no.”
“Everything stated or expressed by man is a note in the margin of a completely erased text. From what's in the note we can extract the gist of what must have been in the text, but there's always a doubt, and the possible meanings are many.”
“Society is a little more forgiving of two women kissing than two men. It's sad but true.”
“Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time - one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you... to be the centerpiece of everything you do.”
“Pride is the ground in which all the other sins grow, and the parent from which all the other sins come.”

Source : William Barclay (2003). “Day by Day with William Barclay: Selected Readings for Daily Reflection”, Hendrickson Publishers

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