"With my teethI have seized lifeUpon the knife of my youth.With my lips today,With my lips alone..."

-- Rene Char

#Knives Quotes #Lips Quotes #Today Quotes

“If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.”
“So this is how a person can come to despise himself-knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop.”

Source : Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.108, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I think half the troubles for which men go slouching in prayer to God are caused by their intolerable pride. Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges. We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.”
“I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.”
“If modern design moved the stage picture away from the specific, tangible, illusionistic world of Romanticism and Realism into a generalized, theatrical, and poetic realm in which the pictorial image functioned as an extension of the playwright's themes and structures (a metanarrative), then postmodern design is a dissonant reminder that no single point of view can predominate, even within a single image.”

Source : Arnold Aronson (2005). “Looking Into the Abyss: Essays on Scenography”, p.14, University of Michigan Press
“I wasn't comfortable on stage for years. It was good - 18 shows. I want to do it again.”
“Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge.”

Source : Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1765). “An Account of the Life of Dav. Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians”, p.275
“By acquiring all of your furniture from different eras and places and things that are expensive and inexpensive, it will make your end product have a great spirit.”

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