"What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?"

-- W. Somerset Maugham

#Illusion Quotes #Resignation Quotes

“I've won a medal, but that's nothing compared to the crown I'll get in Heaven. I see a lot of people in sports who think when they reach a certain level they've got it made, but really, you can only find happiness in the Lord.”
“Then the fear all humans felt when met with Deathâ€™s gaze came over his face. Thatâ€™s right buddy, Iâ€™m Death, now move away from my girl.”
“I'm backing down now. I really do love you. That's why I'm doing this.”
“Your body is a form of energy slowed down to assume the appearance of mass. And the mind directs the energy that determines the form.”
“The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.”

Source : 1833 Last Essays of Elia,'Confessions of a Drunkard'.
“It's changed dramatically in our lifetimes. Communism is gone, so now the global war is framed in religious terms. Fundamentalist religion is rampant on all sides of this war. It casts a very dark shadow over non-fundamentalist religion.”
“My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn't achieve the things she wanted to.”

Source : "Natalie Merchant On Motherhood As Muse". Interview with Laura Rowley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2012.
“God's desire is not for us to turn our churches and Christian gatherings into hideouts from the world. Rather, they're meant to be places where we become equipped and fortified to minister out in the world.”

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