"There is someone that I love even though I don't approve of what he does. There is someone I accept though some of his thoughts and actions revolt me. There is someone I forgive though he hurts the people I love the most. That person is......me."

-- C. S. Lewis

#Hurt Quotes #People Quotes #Forgiving Quotes

“Beneath the blossoms with a pot of wine, No friends at hand, so I poured alone; I raised my cup to invite the moon, Turned to my shadow, and we became three.”

Source : "Drinking Alone in the Midnight" (eighth cent.) (translation by Elling Eide)
“No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.”
“The ideal of perfect Success is an ideal belonging to the same sort of individual as the inventor of Equal Rights of man and Perfectibility.”
“My skin doesn't look as good when I'm not eating enough fruits and vegetables, so I try to eat plenty.”
“Wherever a Scotsman goes, here goes Burns. His grand whole, catholic soul squares with the good of all; therefore we find him in everything, everywhere.”
“We never left a set until we'd trashed it.”
“This time of year, I live and breathe the beach. My cheeks feel raw with the wind throwing sand against them. My thighs sting from the friction of the saddle. My arms ache from holding up two thousand pounds of horse. I have forgotten what it is like to be warm and what a full nightâ€™s sleep feels like and what my name sounds like spoken instead of shouted across yards of sand. I am so, so alive.”
“But I feel vanity is a part of art and the non-vain are really non-artistic.”

Source : Barry Webster (2005). “The Sound of All Flesh”, p.14, The Porcupine's Quill

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