"Are gods more ruthless than mortals? Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them?"

-- Charles Kingsley

#Soul Quotes #Youth Quotes #Mercy Quotes

“Yes, yes; youâ€™ve read thousands of books but youâ€™ve never tried to read your own self; you rush into your temples, into your mosques, but you have never tried to enter your own heart; futile are all your battles with the devil for you have never tried to fight your own desires.”
“If we perform as a unit and if every single player gives it his very best, everything can happen.”
“Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.”
“Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.”

Source : Edwin Way Teale (1976). “The American seasons”, Dodd Mead
“No love that a man has will only give him pleasure in return- he shall also suffer pain because of it, except for love of Allah.”
“The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.”
“You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.”

Source : S.E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.93, Penguin
“The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.”

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