"It's not easy being the sane one!"

-- Charmaine

#Easy Quotes #Sane Quotes

“One ought not to be unkind to a woman merely on account of her plainness, any more than one had a right to take liberties with her merely because she was handsome”

Source : Murasaki Shikibu (1935). “Blue trousers. The lady of the boat. The bridge of dreams”
“The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.”
“It is a measure of the Negro's circumstance that, in America, the smallest things usually take him so very long, and that, by the time he wins them, they are no longer little things: they are miracles.”

Source : Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.246, New York Review of Books
“The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?”
“Italian style is a natural attitude. It is about a life of good taste. It doesn't have to be expensive. Simple but with good taste. Luxury is possible to buy. Good taste is not.”
“The only test of possession is use. The talent that is buried is not owned. The napkin and the hole in the ground are far more truly the man's property, because they are accomplishing something for him, slothful and shameful though it be. And what is a lost soul? Is it not one that God cannot use, or one that cannot use God? Trustless, prayerless, fruitless, loveless--is it not so far lost? So may a man have a soul that is lost and be dead while he lives.”

Source : Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”
“Whatever floats your boat...or finds your lost remote...”
“I waste a lot of my time documenting my "search for great esoterica" online. It gets so complicated trying to identify or give credit to all of one's influences.”

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