"Hell is full of good intentions."

-- Thomas Gray

#Good Intentions Quotes #Hell Quotes #Intention Quotes

“No matter how it looks to us, love never loses control; the laws of our relations are as honest and as exact as the laws of physics.”

Source : Thaddeus Golas (2002). “The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment”, p.60, Gibbs Smith
“In prayer I was exceedingly enlarged, and my soul was as much drawn out as I ever remember it to have been in my life. I was in such anguish, and pleaded with so much earnestness and importunity, that when I rose from my knees I felt extremely weak and overcome; I could scarce walk straight; my joints were loosed; the sweat ran down my face and body; and nature seemed as if it would dissolve....”
“There's been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life.”
“One day the Constitution of Colorado is the highest law of the state. The next day itâ€™s waste paper.”
“I cannot be other than what I am, and I am the choices of all my days.”
“In time, the hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let it go. At least I thought it was. But in every boy I met in the next few years, I found myself looking for you, and when the feelings got too strong, I'd write you another letter. But I never sent them for fear of what I might find. By then, you'd gone on with your life and I didn't want to think about you loving someone else. I wanted to remember us like we were that summer. I didn't ever want to lose that.”
“Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.”
“We know that there is no absolute knowledge, that there are only theories; but we forget this. The better educated we are, the harder we believe in axioms.”

Source : Lincoln Steffens (1931). “The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens”, p.816, Heyday

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