"Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring--this is one of the harshest human miseries."

-- Wislawa Szymborska

#Misery Quotes #Boring Quotes #Loveless Quotes

“Quality thoughts will turn their back on you if you don't treat them with respect.”
“They'd branded me like some kind of animal. Lower than an animal. A number.”

Source : Samantha Shannon (2013). “The Bone Season”, p.108, A&C Black
“Sin does not leap upon us fully armed. It steals in through a look, a swift, silent suggestion or imagination, but love and loyalty to Jesus will make you watchful and swift to rise up and cast out the subtle enemy. Do this and you shall live, and live victoriously.”

Source : Samuel Logan Brengle (1929). “Ancient Prophets: With a Series of Occasional Papers on Modern Problems”
“The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.”
“The most important thing is to try and enjoy life because you never know when it will be gone. If you wake up in the morning and have a choice between doing the laundry and taking a walk in the park, go for the walk. You'd hate to die and realize you had spent your last day doing the laundry.”
“Art is technique: a means by which to materialize the invisible realm of the mind.”
“I'm interested in making a path instead of following a trail, and that's what I want to do in life - in everything I do.”
“Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know the right order of values and deliberately to choose the lower ones: to know that, however much these values may differ with different people at different stages of spiritual growth, for one's self there must be no compromise with that which one knows to be the lower value.”

Source : William Lloyd Garrison (1852). “Selections from the writings and speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an appendix ...”, p.140

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