"The secret belief that the Lord of conscience loves and accepts each faithful sacrifice is the ultimate and sufficient support of all goodness; dispensing with the chorus of approving voices; replacing all vain self-reliance with a Divine strength; and with the peace of a reconciled nature consoling the inevitable sorrows of a devoted life."

-- James Martineau

#Sacrifice Quotes #Self Quotes #Voice Quotes

“Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.”
“One time we played a concert in Antwerp, Belgium. At least I thought it was Antwerp, Belgium. Turns out it was a Stop 'n Shop in Wisconsin somewhere, but it was fun man.”
“What drugs have not destroyed, the war on them has”
“The terminology of philosophical art is coercive: arguments are powerful and best when they are knockdown, arguments force you to a conclusion, if you believe the premisses you have to or must believe the conclusion, some arguments do not carry much punch, and so forth. A philosophical argument is an attempt to get someone to believe something, whether he wants to beleive it or not. A successful philosophical argument, a strong argument, forces someone to a belief.”
“The squares of the periodic times are to each other as the cubes of the mean distances.”
“Whatever happened to the good ole days, when children worked in factories?”
“Where there had been only fearful emptiness or equally frightening grandiose fanÂtasies, an unexpected wealth of vitality is now discovered. This is not a homecoming, since this home has never before existed. It is the creation of home.”
“I hope you feel better today. Please ring me at work if you are dead.”

Source : Jaclyn Moriarty (2014). “Feeling Sorry for Celia: A Novel”, p.27, St. Martin's Press

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