"Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth."

-- H. L. Mencken

#Honesty Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Religion Quotes

“I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.”
“Our philosophy is about reaching back to move forward. We have something different to say with a sensibility that is both old and new.”
“Find something you love to do and then do it for the rest of your life”
“Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can.”
“Love is best a phantom than reality, better in the chase than caught.”

Source : Jessie Burton (2014). “The Miniaturist”, p.111, Pan Macmillan
“Poetic success is when you write a poem that makes you excited and bewildered and aglow.”

Source : "Matthea Harvey, author of 'Modern Life'". Interview with Wendy Vardaman, www.versewisconsin.org.
“Discordance is evil. Harmony is virtue.”
“Art leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft.”

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