"I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned."

-- Jamaica Kincaid

#World Quotes #Melancholy Quotes #Abandoned Quotes

“My body is a reflection of how grateful I am for my life and my health; there are a lot of people less fortunate than me.”
“I'm so very happy to be here, ... My lifelong dream is to win, and I was accustomed to winning before I got to Cincinnati. From Bantam League, to middle school, high school and at Auburn, I was always on winning teams. I just want to win again.”
“Spiritual practice is the capacity to offer your love even when you feel hurt, closed down, tense, angry, misunderstood, or hated.”
“I've always loved movies, since I was a little kid, but I never wanted to be part of that industry. It always seemed horrifying, the way films were made.”

Source : "Beasts of the Southern Wild: 'I didn't expect people to like it'" by Damon Wise, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.
“I picked up a man from the street, and he was eaten up alive from worms. Nobody could stand him, and he was smelling so badly. I went to him to clean him, and he asked, 'Why do you do this?' I said, 'Because I love you.'”
“Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.”
“The solution is to gradually become free of societal rewards and learn how to substitute for them rewards that are under one's own powers. This is not to say that we should abandon every goal endorsed by society; rather, it means that, in addition to or instead of the goals others use to bribe us with, we develop a set of our own.”
“Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.”

Source : William Law (1726). “A practical treatise upon Christian perfection”, p.2

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