"Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who rushed with open arms to embrace the future."

-- Will Self

#Dwelling Quotes #Mind Quotes #Getting Older Quotes

“Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted.”
“Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.”
“Forgiveness is the ultimate preventive medicine, as well as the greatest healer.”
“I don't know how we had about eighteen international stars in it, all playing James Bond.”
“I think we should not do what the Republicans did, which is to spend eight years saying they would do absolutely nothing because we do stand for the country.”
“I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“To forsake sin, is to leave it without any thought reserved of returning to it again.”

Source : William Gurnall (1821). “The Christian in Complete Armour: Or, A Treatise on the Saints' War with the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of the Policy, Power, Wickedness, and Stratagems Made Use of by that Enemy of God and His People : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Assisted in Buckling on His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapons, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.373
“What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire?”

Source : Bharati Mukherjee (2007). “The Middleman and Other Stories”, p.194, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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