"You can only come to the morning through the shadows."

-- J. R. R. Tolkien

#Good Morning Quotes #Morning Quotes #Shadow Quotes

“It is that faculty by which we discover and enjoy the beautiful, the picturesque, and the sublime in literature, art, and nature; which recognizes a noble thought, as a virtuous mind welcomes a pure sentiment by a involuntary glow of satisfaction. But while the principle of perception is inherent in the soul, it requires a certain amount of knowledge to draw out and direct it.”
“I don't think that I would consider myself a feminist. I think that I certainly believe in equal rights, I believe that women are just as capable, if not more so in a lot of different dimensions, but I don't, I think have, sort of, the militant drive and the sort of, the chip on the shoulder that sometimes comes with that.”
“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.”
“Far from being hostile to religion is capable of rendering religion important services.”
“Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic.”
“For no mortal ever attains to blessedness. One may be luckier than another when wealth flows his way, but blessed never.”
“Friedman stumbled in, late to the seminar as usual and reeking of cigar smoke and whiskey. He hadn't read the paper being presented, and halfway through he just gets up, walks up to the podium, socks the mother****er right in the face and takes a piss all over his lecture notes.”
“Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.”

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