"Esteem has more engaging charms than friendship, or even love. It captivates hearts better, and never makes ings."

-- StanisÅ‚aw I LeszczyÅ„ski

#Respect Quotes #Heart Quotes #Charm Quotes

“It also signals to me, when I pick up a pencil, that this is a rough draft. This is not going anywhere, and no one's going to see it. You have permission to make all the mistakes you want. It signals freedom to me, and it signals mistakes.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.”
“Don't take action with a trade until the market, itself, confirms your opinion. Being a little late in a trade is insurance that your opinion is correct. In other words, don't be an impatient trader.”
“All my best friends are women except for one or two. I feel women are superior to men, and I love having them around. All that female energy is good for me.”
“There is incredible generosity in the potentialities of Nature. We only have to discover how to utilize them.”
“You should think about nobody and go your own way, not on a course marked out for you by people holding mugs of water and bottles of iodine in case you fall and cut yourself so that they can pick you up - even if you want to stay where you are - and get you moving again.”

Source : Alan Sillitoe (2003). “New and collected stories”, Robson Books Limited
“I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking through. And when they all were seated, a service, like a drum, kept beating, beating, till I felt my mind was going numb. And then I heard them lift a box and creak across my soul with those same boots of lead again, then space began to toll, as if the heavens were a bell and being were an ear, and I, and silence, some strange race wrecked, solitary, here. Just then, a plank in reason broke, and I fell down and down and hit a world at every plunge, and finished knowing then.”
“Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in God has, but not atheism. Atheism has never given anyone piece of mind. Atheism has never dried a tear. Atheism has never given an intellectual answer to the creation. Atheism is bankrupt and empty; it's brain dead.”

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