"And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human historyâ€”money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slaveryâ€”the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."

-- C. S. Lewis

#God Quotes #War Quotes #Ambition Quotes

“Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.”
“Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there...”

Source : Barbara Pym (1981). “No fond return of love”
“Whether I'm involved in creating something or not, it's a personal issue of do I respect it. But you can only know that five or ten years later.”
“Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.”
“The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something by being nothing”

Source : Mary Oliver (2017). “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver”, p.371, Penguin
“Environmentalists and rank and file timber workers becoming allies is the most dangerous thing in the world to the timber industry!”
“The world is bigger than all the parts. That's the important thing, and one thing can throw everything off kilter. And you must never let yourself off. You'll let yourself off by mistake. So you shouldn't do it consciously. You have to be above it all and just be very disciplined with it. Just be very disciplined with it.”
“I love you," I said in a low, intense voice. "I will always love you, no matter what happens now.”

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