"An offended heart is the breeding ground of deception."

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John Bevere

#Heart Quotes #Deception Quotes #Breeding Quotes

“Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money.”
“Perhaps these ancient observatories like Stonehenge perennially impress modern people because modern people have no idea how the Sun, Moon, or stars move. We are too busy watching evening television to care what's going on in the sky.”
“Imagination, realm of enchantment!- which the most beneficent of beings bestowed upon man to console him for reality- I must quit you now.”

Source : Xavier de Maistre, Stephen Sartarelli (1994). “Voyage Around My Room: Selected Works of Xavier DeMaistre”, p.81, New Directions Publishing
“Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency.”
“I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.”
“All this to say: I am forty-three years old. I may yet live another forty. What do I do with those years? How do I fill them without Lexy? When I come to tell the story of my life, there will be a line, creased and blurred and soft with age, where she stops. If I win the lottery, if I father a child, if I lose the use of my legs, it will be after she has finished knowing me. "When I get to Heaven", my grandmother used to say, widowed at thirty-nine, "your grandfather won't even recognize me.”

Source : Carolyn Parkhurst (2003). “The Dogs of Babel”, Large Print Press
“Take back your light. Know that when you're in awe of someone else's greatness, you're really seeing yourself. Identify what you most admire or love about others and see how you can nourish those qualities and bring them out in yourself. Instead of fixating on someone else's brilliance, find ways to develop and demonstrate your own.”
“Anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools”

Source : "Der Antisemitismus". Book by Hermann Bahr, p. 21, 1894.

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