"The old Victorian laws against homosexuality were still on the statute books until the early 1990s. As a gay man living in Ireland, I and people like me found it easy to feel less than citizens."

-- Colm Toibin

#Book Quotes #Gay Quotes #Men Quotes

“I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.”
“For we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it.”
“The goal of the Transcendental Meditation technique is the state of enlightenment. This means we experience that inner calmness, that quiet state of least excitation, even when we are dynamically busy.”
“While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.”
“Governments should not be able to bulldoze a person's home or business to benefit other individuals.”
“Dont you think dreams and the Internet are similar? They are both areas where the repressed conscious mind vents.”

Source : FaceBook post by Yasutaka Tsutsui from Dec 28, 2016
“I was... the loser of my class. I had absolutely no friends.”
“The ultimate source of a happy life is warm-heartedness. This means extending to others the kind of concern we have for ourselves. On a simple level we find that if we have a compassionate heart we naturally have more friends. And scientists today are discovering that while anger and hatred eat into our immune system, warm-heartedness and compassion are good for our health.”

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