"The rest of Sitka's homicides are so-called crimes of passion, which is a shorthand way of expressing the mathematical product of alcohol and firearms."

-- Michael Chabon

#Passion Quotes #Alcohol Quotes #Way Quotes

“Love does not fail for you when you are rejected, betrayed or apparently not Loved. Love fails for you when you reject, betray and do not love. Therefore .. Love.”

Source : Adi Da Samraj, Da Avabhasa (1993). “The Incarnation of Love: "radical" Spiritual Wisdom and Practical Instruction on Self-transcending Love and Service in All Relationships”
“What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect.”

Source : Barbara Delinsky (2011). “Escape”, p.99, Anchor
“Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head.”
“Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter”

Source : "Briefwechsel ('Correspondence')". Book edited by Arthur Henkel, Volume 6, p. 281, 1955 - 1975.
“Anyone who believes that anything can be suited to everyone is a great fool, because medicine is practised not on mankind in general, but on every individual in particular.”

Source : Chirurgie
“A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior.”
“Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.”
“For when all else is done, onÂly words reÂmain. Words enÂdure.”

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