"Everyone has a need to do penance. It's a basic need, like washing. It's about harmony, an absolutely essential inner balance. It's the balance we call morality."

-- Jo Nesbo

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“If you're really invested in feeling bad about the world, there are a lot of media outlets out there that you can turn to.”
“The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm. Others there are whose hands have sunbeams in them, so that their grasp warms my heart. It may be only the clinging touch of a child's hand; but there is as much potential sunshine in it for me as there is in a loving glance for others. A hearty handshake or a friendly letter gives me genuine pleasure.”
“It's funny because it's funny.”
“I can't do the movies like I do painting because I am really more of a sort of dilettante or something. I mean I know guys that make movies that I can see it is absolutely their medium and they can just go from one movie right into the next because it is just - they have got it so much on the tips of their fingers. But for me it is a special effort.”

Source : Source: www.aaa.si.edu
“As a small country, both in size and population, our future hinges on the quality of our people.”
“Sunday, that day so tedious to the triflers of earth, so full of beautiful reposes of calmness and strength for the earnest and heavenly minded.”

Source : Maria Jane McIntosh (1847). “Two Lives: Or, To Seem and to be”, p.199
“It is normal for me to wake and find myself writing in the dark... or to be out of my tomb, caught in an unearthly world, alive with the images that haunt me.”
“In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed.”

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