"I wonder if there was anything I would have done differently. I hope I would have done everything differently, except I know everything would have turned out the same. That's the meaning of fate."

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Source : Lisa See (2013). “Shanghai Girls and Dreams of Joy: Two Bestselling Novels”, p.413, Random House

Lisa See

#Fate Quotes #Done Quotes #Wonder Quotes

“Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.”

Source : Eric Hoffer (1951). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, New York : Harper
“One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.”
“Imposed philosophical morality (laws/rules) will not save the world. Only a calculated tangible plan to alter our circumstances so such actions pose no merit will stop immoral behaviour.”
“To me having a party is something like having a baby. The fact that you got through the last one alive is not somehow sufficiently reassuring now.”

Source : JEAN KERR (1970). “Penny Candy”
“As for the many followers of the Koran being slaughtered daily by Islamic terrorists, the world will have to wait until Barack Obama is out of office before America's might will be used to save these Muslims.”
“Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice.”
“We can't literally talk with everybody else on the planet or even with representatives of every group. But we can be in favor of the respectful exchange of ideas in ways that don't presuppose that all the right answers are on our own side. Still, we should all have moral bottom lines. Once genocide or torture begins the priority shifts from understanding to stopping it. One hope I have for the global conversation as instantiated in human rights treaties is that we are slowly coming to consensus on certain moral baselines.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“It's okay to forgive yourself immediately and for good.”

Source : Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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