"Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed. (Of Sam)"

-- J. R. R. Tolkien

#Long Quotes #Despair Quotes #Cheerful Quotes

“I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.”
“That's okay. You an be selfish with me all you want. I'm yours.”
“Charity is not a virtue to expect in others only. It is the all-important Christian attribute to be found in ourselves. . . . We believe that charity must begin at home. Can we hope to be charitable to the stranger if love does not abound in the family? A sure step in the direction of improvement and progress in our own lives comes when we share with mother or father in their dependence as they shared with us in their productive years.... We cannot as children ignore our obligations to our parents by passing responsibility for their care to others. . . .”
“I would prefer a normal-sized breast, or a small breast or whatever, and that it be natural, than to understand that it was just some jelly in there.”
“Fate is the magnetic pull of our souls toward the people, places, and things we belong with.”
“Nothing is more maddening than being questioned by the object of one's interest about the object of hers, should that object not be you.”
“I have no physical genius about me. I cant dribble a ball and run at the same time, I cant do lay-ups - Im not an athlete. But my experience as a kid was, I was made fun of so much that what I did then, is, I wouldnt participate. And I think I cheated myself out of a lot of fun.”
“Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.”

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