"Trust is a good way to get oneself killed"

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Source : Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.1104, Delacorte Press

Lauren Kate

#Way Quotes #Oneself Quotes

“There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?”
“I was a fixer, a builder - an inventor - ever since I can remember.”
“Acting is a grind, just like music is a grind. Sometimes it takes longer than what you can give.”
“Nothing in the church makes people in the church more angry than grace. It's ironic: we stumble into a party we weren't invited to and find the uninvited standing at the door making sure no other uninviteds get in. Then a strange phenomenon occurs: as soon as we are included in the party because of Jesus' irresponsible love, we decide to make grace "more responsible" by becoming self-appointed Kingdom Monitors, guarding the kingdom of God, keeping the riffraff out (which, as I understand it, are who the kingdom of God is supposed to include).”
“You do know the answers to most of your problems. Somewhere deep inside, you know.”

Source : Jaclyn Moriarty (2013). “A Corner of White: The Colors of Madeleine, Book One”, p.150, Scholastic Inc.
“A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal a hidden unity.”

Source : Lawrence Kushner (2010). “I'm God, You're Not: Observations on Organized Religion & Other Disguises of the Ego”, p.150, Jewish Lights Publishing
“Like they say, it ain't over 'til the fat guy swings”
“Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.”

Source : Robert Burton (1824). “The Anatomy of Melancholy,: In which the Kinds, Causes, Consequences, and Cures of this English Malady, ... are -- "traced from Within Its Inmost Centre to Its Outmost Skin."”, p.178

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