"The way to Heaven is straight and narrow: they who wish to arrive at that place of bliss by walking in the paths of pleasure shall be disappointed; and therefore few reach it, because few are willing to use violence to themselves in resisting temptations."

-- Alphonsus Liguori

#Heaven Quotes #Temptation Quotes #Wish Quotes

“I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.”
“I'm not sure if a mental relation with a woman doesn't make it impossible to love her. To know the mind of a woman is to end in hating her. Love means the pre-cognitive flow...it is the honest state before the apple.”
“The mobile middle class gravitates to the cities where housing is affordable.”
“I always had a tremendous interest in big tits.”
“Profit margins are probably the most mean-reverting series in finance, and if profit margins do not mean-revert, then something has gone badly wrong with capitalism. If high profits do not attract competition, there is something wrong with the system and it is not functioning properly.”
“However hard we try to bring in the new; it comes into being only in the midst of clumsy deals.”

Source : Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.63, A&C Black
“When I read Spencer Madsen’s poetry, I not only feel awe because he’s so good, one of the best, but I also think about how everything in the world is happening at the same time, and how the world we get to know is so heavily edited down. It’s the hugest, weirdest feeling. I wish Spencer Madsen could be everywhere at once. I really love You Can Make Anything Sad.”
“Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?”

Source : "The Descendants". Book by Kaui Hart Hemmings, p. 236, 2008.

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