"A Russian child asked his mother : "does God know we don't believe in Him?""

-- Yip Harburg

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Believe Quotes

“Our industry is full of all sorts of eccentricities and one of them is owning property.”
“Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires.”

Source : Edmund Waller, Elijah Fenton (1772). “The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq. in verse and prose. Published by Mr. Fenton. (Observations on some of Mr. Waller's poems.) L.P.”, p.187
“You have the power to think differently about who you are. You have the ability to turn off the critical voice inside of you. That's not you. That's coming from the culture. That's coming from the outside of you. You've internalized the voice of your parents, your teachers, your friends.”

Source : Source: thematinggrounds.com
“Donâ€™t ask me those questions! Donâ€™t ask me what life means or how we know reality or why we have to suffer so much. Donâ€™t talk about how nothing feels real, how everything is coated with gelatin and shining like oil in the sun. I donâ€™t want to hear about the tiger in the corner or the Angel of Death or the phone calls from John the Baptist.”
“A good affirmation has five basic ingredients: it's personal, it's positive, it's present tense, it's visual, and it's emotional.”
“I like to work at night.”
“The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need to reassert that slow, time-consuming, inefficient, boring process that requires our involvement; it is called 'being a citizen.' The public good is not something that you can see. It is not static. It is a process. It is the process by which democratic civilizations build themselves.”
“Such was the end of Philip (II, king of Macedonia) ...He had ruled 24 years. He is known to fame as one who with but the slenderest resources to support his claim to a throne won for himself the greatest empire among the Hellenes (Greeks), while the growth of his position was not due so much to his prowess in arms as to his adroitness and cordiality in diplomacy.”

Source : "Histories" by Diodorus Siculus, 16.95.1-2,

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