"My watchful animal instinct to avoid people is almost overpowering."

-- Samantha Abeel

#Animal Quotes #People Quotes #Solitude Quotes

“When youre a girl, passion can dominate the equation, but as you grow up relationships evolve. Mad passion can grab you at first, but it cant last forever.”
“It is the job of conscious rational thought to decide what you want, select the goals you wish to achieve-and concentrate upon these rather than upon what you do not want. To spend time and effort concentrating upon what you do not want is not rational.”
“Love is never static, but always evolving. Love is simultaneously random and ordered, so intangible and yet a part of everything, and when we attempt to limit it or categorize it, we get into trouble.”
“A reader is entitled to believe what he or she believes is consonant with the facts of the book. It is not unusual that readers take away something that is spiritually at variance from what I myself experienced. That's not to say readers make up the book they want. We all have to agree on the facts. But readers bring their histories and all sets of longings. A book will pluck the strings of those longings differently among different readers.”
“We would be more American on the day we permitted same-sex marriage than we were on the day before.”

Source : David Blankenhorn (2013). “The Future of Marriage”, p.2, Encounter Books
“When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.”
“He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.”
“I can't wait to continue traveling and do as much as I can possibly do.”

Source : Interview with Garrett Derr, bleacherreport.com. June 8, 2012.

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