"When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony."

-- George Farquhar

#Fall Quotes #Wonder Quotes #Blind Quotes

“The experience is about how we get there, not the landing place.”
“He stepped colser. Looked deep into my eyes. Hesitated a millisecond, and then dove in. "I think I'm falling in love with you." Oh. No. "Cole--" "I know how you feel. About me. About him. I just wanted you to know-we could be good together. We could have a life. Kids. Vacations. On Sunday mornings I could serve you breakfast in bed." He gave me his I-know-you-find-me-irrestible grin. "And then I could make you something to eat.”
“No other method in this world is able to cure/rectify the demons that exist within human beings in this world - only nature and the animal kingdom, but you also have to bring through your participation and diligent application in facing the demons within.”
“First Ladies have always been held like specimens under a media microscope.”
“But her heart was so cold that she could hold ice in her mouth and it would never melt.”

Source : Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.49, Macmillan
“Imitate the magnificent trees that speak no word of their rapture, but only breathe largely the luminous breeze.”
“Beware of injustice, for oppression will be darkness on the Day of Resurrection; and beware of stinginess because it doomed those who were before you. It incited them to shed blood and treat the unlawful as lawful.”
“When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil ; it exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme poverty ; it confounds his undertakings. By all these methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies.”

Source : Confucius, Mencius, Ming Zuoqiu, Tso-ch'iu Ming (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.323

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