"How wicked, my brothers, innocent milk must always seem to me now."

-- Anthony Burgess

#Brother Quotes #Wicked Quotes #Milk Quotes

“Have the courage to speak your mind and tell the truth from a position of love rather than anger or fear, being open to accept the views of others without feeling threatened or defeated, relinquishing the ego's need to be in control by demonstrating the willingness to do whatever it takes to establish peace.”
“Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes, Are something more than fictions.”

Source : Thomas Hood (1854). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood”, p.248
“All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.”

Source : Enemies of Promise (1938) ch. 16
“Take the Long Way Home is a song that I wrote that's on two levels - on one level I'm talking about not wanting to go home to the wife, 'take the long way home' because she treats you like part of the furniture. But there's a deeper level to the song, too. I really believe we all want to find our true home, find that place in us where we feel at home, and to me, home is in the heart. When we’re in touch with our heart and we're living our life from our heart, then we do feel like we found our home.”

Source : FaceBook post by Roger Hodgson from Nov 12, 2015
“I can hold a note and I know I'm not ugly so, in ways, that's enough.”
“Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.”
“To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be at once Rose Bowl princess, medieval scholar, Saint Joan, Milly Theale, Temple Drake, Eleanor of Aquitaine, one”
“When she cried, he would say, "there is nothing wrong with crying. Your feelings tell you who are. They tell what is important. Don't ever be ashamed of them.”

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