"Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment."

-- Ellen Glasgow

#Memories Quotes #Law Quotes #Longing Quotes

“Every year, my boys and I create new cool gift wrap paper. We hand paint the design and come up with interesting ways to wrap each gift.”
“I would vote against raising the national debt ceiling. Again, this is about mortgaging the future of unborn generations of Americans. It's a form of taxation without representation. I don't think we can do that.”
“My names John Bonham, I'm a drummer and I'm potty about cars.”
“Lavish credit on anyone and everyone who helped you the least bit.”
“The gross elements are earth, water, air and fire, with the fifth being space. Each particle of the body is made up of these five elements, which are manifested in different colors. In their true quality, space is blue light, water is white, earth is yellow, fire is red, and air is green.”
“What I would like to leave behind is a simple prayer that each of you may find what I have foundâ€”Godâ€™s special gift to us all: the gift of peace. When we are at peace, we find the freedom to be most fully who we are, even in the worst of times. We let go of what is nonessential and embrace what is essential. We empty ourselves so that God may more fully work within us. And we become instruments in the hands of the Lord.”
“One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it.”
“When we seem to have won or lost in terms of certainties, we must, as literature teachers in the classroom, remember such warnings -- let literature teach us that there are no certainties, that the process is open, and that it may be altogether salutary that it is so.”

Source : Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (2005). “Death of a Discipline”, p.26, Columbia University Press

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