"What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?"

-- Logan Pearsall Smith

#Nature Quotes #Phrases Quotes #Collecting Quotes

“I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family.”

Source : Catherine Helen Spence “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria
“My painting Two Worlds actually changed the way people see the world.”
“Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.”
“I have the 'thing' worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out.”
“Itâ€™s scary to realize that the only thing holding our friends to us isnâ€™t our performance, or our lovability, or their guilt, or their obligation. The only thing that will keep them calling, spending time with us, and putting up with us is love. And thatâ€™s the one thing we canâ€™t control.”
“Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy andnational security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com
“In this place of gracious uncertainty, we wait. For the broken places to be brought back together. For the meaning of our suffering to be revealed in his. For the righteous reign of a mighty God, whose goodness we will spend all eternity celebrating. We wait - with open, expectant hearts.”
“Over and over, we begin again.”

Source : Banana Yoshimoto (1993). “Kitchen”

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