"However high be your endeavors, unless you renounce and subjugate your own will - unless you forget yourself and all that pertains to yourself - not one step will you advance on the road to perfection."

-- John of the Cross

#Perfection Quotes #Steps Quotes #Forget You Quotes

“You can destroy a factory, and they'll build another. But once you destroy a life, that's it. You never get that person back.”

Source : Alexandra Bracken (2016). “The Darkest Minds”, p.80, Hachette UK
“In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong.”

Source : Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.72, Sarah Orne Jewett
“This is the moment when we have to decide: does a world exist outside ourselves and is that world worth fighting for? Another 200 species went extinct today. They were my kin. They were yours, too. If we know them as such, why aren't we fighting to save them with everything we've got?”

Source : Derrick Jensen, Aric McBay, Lierre Keith (2011). “Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet”, p.228, Seven Stories Press
“It's very difficult leaving the house anytime with my baby at home.”
“Don't let your history hinder you from your destiny... you are only held back by yourself! You aren't what they say you were, you are who God says you are!!”
“The Arab world is full of corruption, in the time of the dictatorships and in the time of anarchy. This corruption is not only in politics and the economy, but also in the field of creative activity. There's an elite that controls the festivals, the newspapers, and the reviews. They are just a corrupt clique with no interest in creativity.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“My confidence was of the hothouse variety, carefully cultivated under highly regulated conditions. One wrong look, one mean comment, and my facade would wither.”
“There is always room at the top - after the investigation.”

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