"I have always had plenty of friends, and now at age sixty, I face four walls as a common prisoner."

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Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004.

Albert Kesselring

#Wall Quotes #Age Quotes #Four Quotes

“The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite.”
“There are three things you need to be a good writer: you need to read a lot, you need to write a lot, and you need a lot of feedback.”
“I understood that every flower created by Him is beautiful, that the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not lessen the perfume of the violet or the sweet simplicity of the daisy. I understood that if all the lowly flowers wished to be roses, nature would no longer be enamelled with lovely hues. And so it is in the world of souls, Our lord's living garden.”

Source : Saint Therese of Lisieux (2007). “The Story of the Soul”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.
“Break the rules, stand apart, ignore your head, and follow your heart,”
“If liberty of speech is to be untrammeled from the grosser forms of constraint, the uniformity of opinion will be secured by a moral terrorism to which the respectability of society will give its thorough approval.”
“If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.”
“To penetrate into the essence of all being and significance, and to release the fragrance of that inner attainment for the guidance of others, by expressing in the world of forms- truth, love, purity and beauty - this is the sole game which has any intrinsic and absolute worth. All other happenings, incidents and attainments can, in themselves, have no lasting importance.”
“In an era where the White House is abusing power, is excusing and authorizing torture and is spying on American citizens, I find Judge [Samuel] Alito's support for an all-powerful executive branch to be genuinely troubling.”

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