"A good novel cannot be too long nor a bad novel too short."

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Source : "The Sheltered Life".

Ellen Glasgow

#Long Quotes #Too Short Quotes #Novel Quotes

“If anybody would have told me I'd be making number seven Fast & Furious, I would have said, "You're crazy."”
“The purpose of dharma is to help your mind to expand, to grow, to clarify. It should uphold us and create an inner sense of peace, joy, and clarity.”
“Music stimulates within us direct experience of expanded reality”
“Coach Bruce Weber told me in a meeting that all I have to do is play pretty well. The rest of the guys are doing well now. It takes a lot of pressure off Dee and especially myself. Luther and Deron and all the assists and rebounds and all the points that were lost, somebody has to make them up. In reality, you can't do all that.”
“To say that a man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.”
“Pride takes innumerable forms but has only one end: self-glorification. Thatâ€™s the motive and ultimate purpose of prideâ€”to rob God of legitimate glory and to pursue self-glorification, contending for supremacy with Him. The proud person seeks to glorify himself and not God, thereby attempting in effect to deprive God of something only He is worthy to receive”

Source : C.J. Mahaney (2008). “Humility: True Greatness”, p.22, Multnomah
“I was appalled at how children had become the focus and gravitational center of the nuclear family around which parents orbited instead of the traditional arrangement in which children orbited around their parents. This is a huge change because a critical job in early childhood is to get children weaned away from the total narcissism normal to infancy. With the children as the center of the family's actions and decisions, narcissism is at a minimum prolonged and may never significantly decline.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“I think baseball has such a way of humbling you. You can go 20-for-20, and before you know it, you're going to go through an 0-for-30. It has that way of knocking you back down to earth.”

Source : Source: espn.go.com

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