"Nicknames are fond names. We do not give them to people we dislike."

-- Edna Ferber

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“That one indeed is a man who, today, dedicateth himself to the service of the entire human race. The Great Being saith: Blessed and happy is he that ariseth to promote the best interests of the peoples and kindreds of the earth. It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens.”

Source : "Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh". Book by Bahá'u'lláh edited and translated by Shoghi Effendi, 1935.
“Live life messy and love every moment of it.”
“Sometimes it is like juggling with broken glass because both things are very sensitive and have to be handled with care. I can't let the career be neglected and I can't let my family and children be neglected either.”
“Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo.”

Source : Hisham Matar (2007). “In the Country of Men”, p.167, Penguin UK
“Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design.”
“Esse quam videri," Celia says. "To be, rather than to seem.”
“Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive production of gender identities are oppressive?”
“The happy do not believe in miracles.”

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