"Obedience is, indeed, founded on a kind of freedom, else it would become mere subjugation, but that freedom is only granted that obedience may be more perfect; and thus while a measure of license is necessary to exhibit the individual energies of things, the fairness and pleasantness and perfection of them all consist in their restraint."

-- John Ruskin

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“There are those that even God exploits, and they are prophets and saints in the vacuousness of the world.”
“Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.”
“no form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all there is in life, it seems to me. But I grant you, if you deny the variety of love you deny love altogether. If you try to specialize love into one set of accepted feelings, you wound the very soul of love. Love must be multi-form, else it is just tyranny, just death”

Source : D. H. Lawrence, Dieter Mehl (2002). “The Fox, The Captain's Doll, The Ladybird”, p.201, Cambridge University Press
“Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money.”
“End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.”
“Never let go of hope. One day you will see that it all has finally come together. What you have always wished for has finally come to be. You will look back and laugh at what has passed and you will ask yourself... 'How did I get through all of that?”
“A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it.”

Source : Nina Bawden (2011). “In My Own Time: Almost an Autobiography”, p.99, Hachette UK
“I'm not comfortable with getting a job by being at the right Hollywood party; I'm not a terribly sociable creature.”

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