"A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale."

-- V. S. Pritchett

#Giving Quotes #Storytelling Quotes #Tales Quotes

“The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.”
“Caressing reassures lovers that their love endures.”

Source : Witter Bynner (1936). “Selected Poems”
“To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other wasteful childish emotions. To find myself, in other words, an adult. Truman Capote”
“It is better not to be loved than to be ill-loved or half-loved.”
“In order to receive forgiveness, we need to place our trust in Christ as our Savior and the Lord of our lives. But if we reject Christ, then we reject God's mercy and fall back on His justice. And you know where you stand there. If we reject Jesus' offer of forgiveness, then there is simply is no one else to pay the penalty for your sin--except yourself.”

Source : William Lane Craig during Debate with Ray Bradley at Simon Fraiser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, www.reasonablefaith.org. January 1994.
“It is a mark of the depth of their wounding that they are pretending they suspected it all along. Everything that they have seen and been told about love so far has been an inside perspective, and they are not prepared for the crashing weight of this exclusion. It dawns on them now how much they never saw and how little they were wanted, and with this dawning comes a painful re-imagining of the self as peripheral, uninvited, and utterly minor.”

Source : Eleanor Catton (2009). “The Rehearsal”
“Efforts depend on individuals, but results rely on mere conditions.”
“Years of concentration solely on work and individual success meant that in his retirement [Lyndon Johnson] could find no solace in family, in recreation, in sports or in hobbies. It was almost as if the hole in his heart was so large that even the love of a family, without work, could not fill it.”

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