"I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian nursing chair, their paws, their ears, their tails complementarily adjusted, their blue eyes blinking open on a single thought of when I shall remember it's their supper time. They might have been composed by Bach for two flutes."

-- Sylvia Townsend Warner

#Cat Quotes #Eye Quotes #Nursing Quotes

“I'm a married man and I've got two children, and you have to do sacrifices.”
“Our nature is to worship, but unless that element is directed towards God it becomes "a senseless impersonal force, carrying us away in its momentum. It becomes a search for ecstasy - no matter what kind achieved through destruction...The worshipful integraton of nature in the person is inverted in a hellish imprisonment of the individual in nature."”
“I wasn't tempted to have my private parts decorated.”
“He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)”
“Be satisfied with nothing but your best.”
“With thee goes Thy husband, him to follow thou art bound; Where he abides, think there thy native soil.”
“Money alone can't bring you happiness, but money alone has not brought me unhappiness. I won't say my previous husbands thought only of my money, but it had a certain fascination for them.”
“Our love for God is tested by the question of whether we seek Him or His gifts.”

Source : Ralph Washington Sockman (1958). “Mans̓ First Love: The Great Commandment”

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