"Every man in the time of courtship and in the first entrance of marriage, puts on a behavior like my correspondent's holiday suit."

-- Joseph Addison

#Holiday Quotes #Men Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time is both spiritual and historical.”
“I work. I have a life. There's not much to tell.”
“If you let go a little you will have a little happiness. If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.”
“A religious phenomenon will only be recognized as such if it is grasped at its own level, that is to say, if it is studied as something religious. To try to grasp the essence of such phenomenon by means of physiology, psychology , sociology , economics , linguistics , art or any other study is false; it misses the one unique and irreducible element in it the element of the sacred .”

Source : "Patterns in Comparative Religion". Book by Mircea Eliade, p. xiii, 1963.
“I've tried to become someone else for a while, only to discover that he, too, was me.”

Source : Stephen Dunn (2013). “Here and Now: Poems”, p.86, W. W. Norton & Company
“The fact is, art is alive. It's moving around. It's alive.”
“When those deserving of Paradise would enter Paradise, the Blessed and the Exalted would ask: Do you wish Me to give you anything more? They would say: Hast Thou not brightened our faces? Hast Thou not made us enter Paradise and saved us from Fire? He would lift the veil, and of things given to them nothing would be dearer to them than the sight of their Lord, the Mighty and the Glorious.”
“You can't turn the sheriff into a toad, Hannah. It's against the rules. --Abbey Drake”

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