"Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity."

-- Johann Kaspar Lavater

#Friendship Quotes #Enmity Quotes #Dread Quotes

“When you're younger, your inspiration is there. As you get older, it tends to waver. Once you find it - I found it again - that's where you can draw from. That's where you draw your strength from.”
“The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.”
“Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.”
“One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.”

Source : Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.69, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
“What compels any of us to do the things we do when deep down a part of us just wants to break free from it all?”
“How many times can summer turn to fall in one life?”

Source : Charles Wright (2014). “Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems”, p.54, Macmillan
“Because of the way I've made my money or the way I've conducted myself in public to get success, it doesn't make me any better a person. So I always thought money and achievement would make me a more legitimate person, where my family seems to think it's all about actions.”
“For years I was so busy building walls I did not see I was imprisoning myself behind them, and did not recognize this pattern as being addiction. My addictive thinking and behavior became the bars of my cell. Denying feeling empty inside, I constantly looked for new things to acquire, people to be around, substances to take, and new goals to achieve in order to feel better about myself. Over the last four decades I have focused on healing my addictive mind and helping others do the same.”

Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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