"The year is made up of minutes. Let these be watched as having been dedicated to God. It is in the sanctification of the small that hallowing of the large is secure."

-- G. Campbell Morgan

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“All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good very inadequate to their aspirations. They do so much less than they want to do, and so much less than they, at the outset, expected to do, that their lives, viewed retrospectively, inevitably look like failure.”
“I like music to soothe me.”
“There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.”

Source : Mary Renault (2013). “The Charioteer: A Virago Modern Classic”, p.71, Hachette UK
“You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.”
“The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us and how we can see ourselves successfully acknowledged by that world.”
“Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed.”
“Let's not kid ourselves. Whatever we diagnose, most patients, if they don't die, get well by themselves. Our job is mainly to try to make them feel better; do no harm.”
“I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's mind, which can begin to play tricks. Was that a dream or did it really happen? One begins to question everything.”

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