"There is nothing quite so delightfully mysterious as a secret in your own backyard."

-- Patrick Rothfuss

#Secret Quotes #Backyards Quotes #Mysterious Quotes

“Our humanist attitude should therefore throughout be to stress what we all have in common with each other and relegate quarrelsome religion to the private domain where it can do [less] harm.”
“A woman should live with two men; one more a lover and the other more a friend.”
“Really, all religious teachings can be boiled down to: â€œJust be cool. Donâ€™t be an asshole.”

Source : Nick Offerman (2013). “Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living”, p.49, Penguin
“Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning.”

Source : A.S.A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife”, p.240, Hachette UK
“I, a pilgrim of eternity, stand before Thee, O eternal One. Let me not seek to deaden or destroy the desire for Thee that disturbs my heart. Let me rather yield myself to its constraint and go where it leads me. Make me wise to see all things today under the form of eternity, and make me brave to face all the changes in my life which such a vision may entail: through the grace of Christ my Saviour. Amen”

Source : John Baillie (1952). “A diary of private prayer”, Scribner
“In life we pay for the evil that in life we do.”

Source : Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.2954, Delphi Classics
“To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.”
“What is needed is not a change of circumstance, but a change of consciousness.”

Source : Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.334, Penguin

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