"Our laws can be friendly to those who obey them, and too often useful to those who don't."

-- Cullen Hightower

#Friendly Quotes

“The fountain of information lies at your fingertips and is accessible anywhere at anytime and schools need to emphasize this. We are no longer in a world where you need to go seek enlightenment, it is everywhere.”
“Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this.”
“You know what my favourite quotation is?...It's from Chaucer... Criseyde says it, "I am myne owene woman, wel at ese.”

Source : "The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt". Short story by ary McCarthy, first published in "Partisan Review", 1941.
“Can you imagine what it would feel like to become aware of an omnipresent ocean of wild divine love that has always been a secret to you in the same way that the sea is invisible to a fish?”
“I've always had a tendency to push the envelope as far as it can go without hurting someone's feelings.”
“When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.”

Source : "The sensation of writing is the same for me as taking a pee". Interview with Sarah Rowland, www.esquire.com. November 11, 2014.
“I never work with one inspiration in mind. I like to take things from everywhere and piece it together.It's never a theme or a trick.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“Advice to Young Journal Keepers. Be lenient with yourself. Conceal your worst faults, leave out your most shameful thoughts, actions, and temptations. Give yourself all the good and interesting qualities you want and haven't got. If you should die young, what comfort would it be to your relatives to read the truth and have to say: It is not a pearl we have lost, but a swine?”

Source : Rosamond Lehmann (2012). “Invitation To The Waltz”, p.55, Hachette UK

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