"I have an unshakable belief that mankind's higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which their lesser fellows possess-hidden, it is true, but there all the same."

-- Helen Keller

#Heart Quotes #Soul Quotes #Mind Quotes

“A propos of Distempers, I am going to tell you a thing that I am sure will make you wish your selfe here. The Small Pox so fatal and so general amongst us is here entirely harmless by the invention of engrafting (which is the term they give it). There is a set of old Women who make it their business to perform the Operation.”
“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.”

Source : "Wayne's lost world" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2007.
“I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.”
“It's hard to write about a love story with a broken heart.”

Source : Kim Gordon (2015). “Girl in a Band”, p.76, Faber & Faber
“I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.”
“There's a lot more pressure when you're a medal favorite. Now, nobody has any expectations for me. Nobody knows what I can do, so I'm riding with nothing to lose.”
“Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.”
“one's enjoyment is doubled when one can share it with a friend - and where can one find a more affectionate, a more intimate friend than in one's own family?”

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