"You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings! Wings!"

-- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#Thinking Quotes #Glasses Quotes #Light Quotes

“Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.”
“Love, like life, is so insecure. It moves in our lives and occupies its sweet space in our hearts so easily. But it never guarantees that it will stay there forever. Probably that's why it is so precious.”

Source : Ravinder Singh (2011). “Can Love Happen Twice?”, p.133, Penguin UK
“I live in New York, so I'm used to the audiences that cheer and clap through a play. It is unusual for London audiences.”

Source : Source: deadline.com
“Let us live like those who expect to die, and then we shall find that we feared death only because we were unacquainted with it.”
“When you send off a short story, it sits on the editor's desk in the same pile with stories by the most famous and honored names in present-day writing-and it's not going to be accepted unless it's as good as theirs. (And it'll probably have to be better.)”
“A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.”

Source : "The Two Planes of International Reality". Lecture at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey on March 1954. "Realities of American Foreign Policy". Book by George F. Kennan, p. 4, 1954.
“Men who pay for what they eat will insist on gratifying their palates”
“He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.”

Source : Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.81, Ravenio Books

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