"There is no marriage in Heaven, but there is love."

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Source : Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.15, Courier Corporation

Edgar Lee Masters

“The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.”

Source : Alma Mahler, Gustav Mahler, Donald Mitchell, Knud Martner (1973). “Gustav Mahler: memories and letters”, John Murray Publishers
“I'm not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don't like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is over that that leader's sole purpose was to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.”
“How much more courage it took to be kind than to be cruel.”

Source : Louise Penny (2013). “How the Light Gets In: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.16, Macmillan
“A realistic expectation also demands our acceptance that one's allotted time on earth must be limited to an allowance consistent with the continuity of our species... We die so that the world may continue to live. We have been given the miracle of life because trillions and trillions of living things have prepared the way for us and then have died-in a sense, for us. We die, in turn, so that others may live. The tragedy of a single individual becomes, in the balance of natural things, the triumph of ongoing life.”
“The difference between success and failure is often about 5% more effort.”
“Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.”
“Iâ€™m not terribly interested in beauty. What touches me is someone who understands herself.”
“Being green saves you money. Being green saves you green.”

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