"The heart never forgets, never gives up, the territory marked off for those who came before."

-- Robert James Waller

#Giving Up Quotes #Heart Quotes #Territory Quotes

“New Yorkers are born all over the country, and then they come to New York City and it hits them: Oh, thatâ€™s who I am.”
“If I say, "Yes, I forgive, but I cannot forgive," as though the God, who twice a day washes all the sands on all the shores of all the world, could not wash such memories from my mind, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”
“Agape means love for another self not because of any lovable qualities which he or she may possess, but purely and entirely because it is a self capable of experiencing happiness and misery and endowed with the power to choose between good and evil. The love of humans is thus more than a feeling, it is a state of the will.”
“As a kid, I was terrified. I was a bed wetter and I had to go to sleepaway camp every summer, which was humiliating and terrifying. I had lots of insecurities and scaredness. I covered it with being funny and tough, but it's hard to be tough when you're making your cot in your bunk over soaking wet sheets and acting like nobody can smell anything.”
“Searching all directions with one's awareness, one finds no one dearer than oneself. In the same way, others are fiercely dear to themselves. So one should not hurt others if one loves oneself.”
“Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.”

Source : George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”
“Deep down inside we're all the same. We all have the same emotions.”
“I'm Dave Chappelle and I'm a chronic masturbator.”

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