"If there is horror, it is for those who speak indifferently of the next war. If there is hate, it is for hateful qualities, not nations. If there is love, it is because this alone kept me alive."

-- Claude Cahun

#Hate Quotes #War Quotes #Quality Quotes

“Life is a warfare; and he who easily desponds deserts a double duty--he betrays the noblest property of man, which is dauntless resolution; and he rejects the providence of that All-Gracious Being who guides and rules the universe.”

Source : Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.159
“No matter whether one is flying over Newfoundland or the sea of lights that stretches from Boston to Philadelphia after nightfall, over the Arabian deserts which gleam like mother-of-pearl, over the Ruhr or the city of Frankfurt, it is as though there were no people, only the things they have made and in which they are hiding.”

Source : W. G. Sebald (2016). “The Rings of Saturn”, p.57, New Directions Publishing
“What sweet, what happy days had I,When dreams made Time Eternity!”

Source : W. H. Davies (2015). “The True Traveller: A Reader”, p.234, Carcanet Press Ltd
“You don't have the game you played last year or last week. You only have today's game. It may be far from your best, but that's all you've got. Harden your heart and make the best of it.”
“I wanted to put all my family stories down for my girls, and I remember everything so vividly. I just wanted to put everything down while I still can remember it all.”

Source : "Sissy Spacek On ‘An Extraordinary Ordinary Life’: Oscar-Winning Star Talks Career, Kids And ‘Carrie’". Interview with Curtis M. Wong, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 16, 2012.
“Courage is more important than confidence”
“She belongs to the winter that is past, to the darkness that is over, and has no part or lot in the life I shall lead for the next six months. Oh, I could dance and sing for joy that the spring is here! What a ressurection of beauty there is in my garden, and of brightest hope in my heart.”

Source : Elizabeth Von Arnim (2006). “Elizabeth and Her German Garden”, p.156, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
“Life can have significance even if it appears to be a series of failures.”

Source : Joseph Cornell (1993). “Joseph Cornell's Theater of the Mind: Selected Diaries, Letters, and Files”, Thames & Hudson

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