"Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why."

-- Nadine Gordimer

#Blessed Quotes #Animal Quotes #Self Quotes

“I've found that if you're not responsive to e-mail, it trains people to leave you alone.”

Source : "David Karp, the Nonconformist Who Built Tumblr" by Liz Welch, www.inc.com.
“It fortifies my soul to know That, though I perish, Truth is so: That, howsoe'er I stray and range, Whate'er I do, Thou dost not change. I steadier step when I recall That, if I slip Thou dost not fall.”

Source : Arthur Hugh Clough (1874). “Poems: With a Memoir”, p.53
“Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes more inexorably than love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; coffin, too. The same sentiment says yes and no in the human heart. Of all the things God has made, the human heart is the one that sheds most light, and alas! most night.”
“I believe all God's creatures have a soul... except bears, bears are Godless killing machines!”
“History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make.”
“With my teethI have seized lifeUpon the knife of my youth.With my lips today,With my lips alone...”
“I'm not dissatisfied with my place in it rock 'n' roll.”
“In order to inspire people, that's going to have to come from somewhere deep inside of you.”

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