"It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world."

-- Arthur Helps

#Spiritual Quotes #Loss Quotes #Self Quotes

“We may not always finish what we start but God always finishes what He starts.”
“It was somehow degrading, craving someone so... voraciously - another good calendar word - just because he was physically beautiful. I hadn't thought that was something women did, either.”
“Bottom line, if people don't say what they believe, those ideas and feelings get lost. If they are lost often enough, those ideas and feelings never return.”

Source : David Wojnarowicz (2014). “Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration”, p.87, Open Road Media
“I know it's illegal [trespassing], but I don't think it's wrong.”
“As the sun is to the earth, so Honour is to a man. without it, he will not flourish. All else may fail you, but honour is the treasure no one can take from you, the shield no one can penetrate unless you let them. Honour is beautiful and clean. Honour is sacred.”
“...I want my spirituality to rid me of hate, not give me reason for it.”
“Maybe that's the way to tell the dangerous men from the good ones. A dreamer of the day is dangerous when he believes that others are less: less than their own best selves and certainly less than he is. They exist to follow and flatter him, and to serve his purposes. A true prophet, I suppose, is like a good parent. A true prophet sees others, not himself. He helps them define their own half-formed dreams, and puts himself at their service. He is not diminished as they become more. He offers courage in one hand and generosity in the other.”
“It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.”

Source : "Allegiant". Book by Veronica Roth, 2013.

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