"That night, I asked the Mother of God what was to become of me, a Child of Faith. Then she came to me holding two crowns, one white, the other red. She asked me if I was willing to accept either of these crowns. The white one meant that I should persevere in purity, and the red that I should become a martyr. I said that I would accept them both."

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Maximilian Kolbe

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Night Quotes

“Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.”

Source : Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1835). “Traits of American Life”, p.216
“Keeping it simple for the consumer is incredibly dire.”
“Yeah, they are loyal, women. They have been loyal. They are activists. They will fight you about me.”
“Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.”

Source : Clifton Fadiman (1955). “Party of One: The Selectd Writings of Clifton Fadiman”
“I love both the way a dog looks up to me and a cat condescends to me.”
“Judge not that ye be judged; we carried the torch to the goal. The goal is won: guard the fire: it is yours: but remember our soul. Breathes through the life that we saved, when our lives went out in the night: Your body is woven of ours: see that the torch is alight.”
“One is what one is, and the dishonesty of hiding behind a degree, or a title, or any manner and collection of words, is still exactly that: dishonest.”

Source : Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.11, Pan Macmillan
“There's no getting blood out of a turnip.”

Source : Frederick Marryat (1857). “Japhet, in Search of a Father ... A new edition”, p.13

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