"...how much needless despair has been caused by a series of biological mismatches, a misalignment of the hormones and pheromones? Resulting in the fact that the one you love so passionately won't or can't love you. As a species we're pathetic that way: imperfectly monogamous."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Love You Quotes #Despair Quotes #Way Quotes

“I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.”
“The best listener is the one who really cares about the other person.”
“If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.”
“The first time you find yourself having a conversation about moss stitch with a group of people who aren't desperately trying to escape you ... it's like coming home.”

Source : Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.24, Storey Publishing
“A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading,”
“It is not that things are delusory but their separateness in the fabric of the Whole that is illusory...”

Source : "Echoes from the Bottomless Well". Book by Frederick Franck, p. 77, 1985.
“We all understand that the debasement of a nations coinage is very pernicious and must prove disastrous to its commerce. How much more dangerous is the debasement of the spiritual coinage!”

Source : "Christian Missions: A Triangular Debate, Before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York". The Monist Magazine, Volume 5, 1895.
“The way I portrayed the people is accurate. Because they're human beings and we have a kind of wonderful capacity to be absurd and ridiculous.”

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