"This afternoon held that special quality of mournful emptiness I've connected with late Sunday afternoons ever since childhood: the feeling of having nothing to do."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Sunday Quotes #Childhood Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Like a child, the earth's going to sleep, or so the story goes. But I'm not tired, it says. And the mother says, You may not be tired but I'm tired”
“I heard a rumor that I had...left the earth”
“Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.”

Source : Augustine Birrell (1922). “The Collected Essays & Addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920 ...”
“And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.”

Source : Yehuda Amichai (1992). “Poems of Jerusalem ; And, Love Poems: A Bilingual Edition”
“Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.”

Source : Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”
“Well, you know, I think in conversations with members of the Senate and others, they all recognize that the issue of immigration is important. It's important to our nation, it's important to our public safety, it's important to our security, it's important to our economic well-being moving forward. And it's not something that's going to go away.”
“Send the haters all my love. X and O.”
“A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is -- a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.”

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