"The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation."

-- Charles Spurgeon

#Men Quotes #Self Quotes #Soul Quotes

“For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was conscious of continuing a dialogue begun thousands of years before and which he believed would never end.”
“No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry.”
“Speaking of dust, â€˜out of which we came and to which we shall return,â€™ do you know that after we are dead our corpses are devoured by different kinds of worms according as we are fat or thin? In fat corpses one species of maggot is found, the rhizophagus, while thin corpses are patronized only by the phora. The latter is evidently the aristocrat, the fastidious gourmet which turns up its nose at a heavy meal of copious breasts and juicy at bellies. Just think, there is no perfect equality, even in the manner in which we feed the worms.”
“If you can't live it down, might as well live it up.”

Source : Song: Live It Up, Album: Modern Day Prodigal Son, 2009
“For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.”
“The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.”
“Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.”

Source : Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways
“Every Day Is for the Thief is a vivid, episodic evocation of the truism that you can't go home again; but that doesn't mean you're not free to try. A return to his native Nigeria plunges Cole's charming narrator into a tempest of chaos, contradiction, and kinship in a place both endearingly familiar and unnervingly strange. The result is a tale that engages and disturbs.”

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