"The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way."

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Source : C. J. Sansom (2004). “Dissolution: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery”, p.132, Penguin

C.J. Sansom

#Echoes Quotes #Childhood Quotes #Mind Quotes

“The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.”
“I was able to be more reckless and now I still make mistakes, but having kids, you have a responsibility and these little people who are looking up to you for everything.”
“The improvement of life was only accomplished to the extent to which it was based on a change of consciousness, that is, to the extent to which the law of violence was replaced in men's consciousness by the law of love.”
“Enthusiastic service providers create enthusiastic customers.”
“For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to help them, to concentrate on universal values of mercy, co-operation and tolerance.”

Source : "Wadah Khanfar: 'Be patient with the Arab World'". Interview with Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2011.
“It is the business of a general to be serene and inscrutable, impartial and self-controlled.”
“...our societies appear to be intent on immediate consumption rather than on investment for the future. We are piling up enormous debts and exploiting the natural environment in a manner which suggests that we have no real sense of any worthwhile future. Just as a society which believes in the future saves in the present in order to invest in the future, so a society without belief spends everything now and piles up debts for future generations to settle. "Spend now and someone else will pay later."”
“I tell you, deep inside you is a fountain of bliss, a fountain of joy. Deep inside your center core is truth, light, love, there is no guilt there, there is no fear there. Psychologists have never looked deep enough.”

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