"A bed or a chair will trick you if you stay still on them long at a time. They will draw out your strength and leave you weak as water."

-- Julia Peterkin

#Long Quotes #Water Quotes #Bed Quotes

“If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.”

Source : David A. Reisman, Aneurin Bevan (1996). “In Place of Fear”, Pickering & Chatto Publishers
“To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.”
“Since I spent eighteen years of my life as a child, and nine years of that life as a pretty sexually active gay child, my complaint against the current attitudes is that they work mightily to silence the voices of children first and secondarily ignore what adults have to say who have been through these situations. One size fits all is never the way to handle any situation with a human dimension. Many, many children-and I was one of them-are desperate to establish some sort of sexual relation with an older and even adult figure.”
“Now, there was an anchorite called Timothy in a coenobium. The abbot, having heard of a brother who was being tempted, asked Timothy about him, and the anchorite advised him to drive the brother away. Then when he had been driven away, the brother's temptation fell upon Timothy to the point where he was in danger. Then Timothy stood up before God and said, "I have sinned. Forgive me." Then a voice came which said to him, "Timothy, the only reason I have done this to you is because you despised your brother in the time of his temptation."”
“It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.”
“In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.”
“Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.”
“I never went to school for art or was told what to like or when. So every day is a learning process, like most of life.”

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