"So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it."

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Source : Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”

Haniel Long

#Family Quotes #Loyalty Quotes #Our Love Quotes

“Violence harms the one who does it as much as the one who receives it. You could cut down a tree with an axe. The axe does violence to the tree, and escapes unharmed. Is that how you see it? Wood is soft compared to steel, but the sharp steel is dulled as it chops, and the sap of the tree will rust and pit it. The mighty axe does violence to the helpless tree, and is harmed by it. So it is with men, though the harm is in the spirit.”
“Hymns are companions for life travelers.”
“The whole thing was set up very cleverly. The people who were torn from their normal lives and put on the trains may have heard that terrible things were happening in Auschwitz, but even up to the end, they kept on thinking: Perhaps it isn't so bad after all. And then they arrived and the SS told them: "The old people and the sick can take the truck. Anyone who is still young can walk." It took us a while to realize that the ones who were being driven were really being taken to the gas chambers.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“We've been there and come back. When you fall in the pit, people are supposed to help you up. But you have to get up on your own. We'll take your arms, but you have to get your legs underneath you and stand.”

Source : Bucky Sinister (2008). “Get Up: A 12-step Guide to Recovery for Misfits, Freaks, and Weirdos”, p.39, Conari Press
“I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad at studies. I was not very good at sports, also.”
“I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.”
“You're the cutest thing that I ever did see I really love your peaches, wanna shake your tree”

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