"So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend."

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

#Love Quotes #Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes

“He [the King of Morocco] spends half his time asleep and the rest of it buried between the legs of the fairer sex.”

Source : "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 237, 1991.
“As my mother once said to me, â€˜Theyâ€™re quite crazy, dear â€“ men are. What you look for is one of them whose insanity is large enough, and calm and generous enough, to include you.”

Source : Charles Baxter (2009). “The Feast of Love”, p.138, Vintage
“In Quebec, our goal isn't to reduce daycare service - a program the entire world envies - but to make it viable so tomorrow's families can keep benefiting from it.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.”
“Anyone who lives with poor health or chronic pain, or who has endured poverty - real poverty - knows what it is to live with lack and a resulting fear so incessant that it becomes thoroughly normalized, invisible in its ubiquity. If you're lucky enough to have that fear begin to ease, it's an odd experience. A stranglehold eases off your entire body, one you never fully realized was there.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
“If love be a god, why should not lovers be virtuous?”
“Alex gazed at her. Her mouth was slightly open; she ran her fingernail against her lower teeth as she thought. She'd knotted her hair at the nape of her neck again, and a strand had slipped loose onto her shoulder, gleaming in the lantern light. Suddenly all of his objections seemed meaningless. Don't, he thought. You'll regret it. He didn't care anymore. Slowly, unable to stop himself, he reached out and cupped his hand around her foot.”
“I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments.”

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