"A rainy day is like a lovely gift -- you can sleep late and not feel guilty."

-- Elizabeth Jane Howard

#Sleep Quotes #Rainy Day Quotes #Lovely Quotes

“Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin; such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate conquerors.”
“If the Almighty directs our steps, we've no need to look back over our shoulders.”

Source : Liz Curtis Higgs (2010). “Here Burns My Candle: A Novel”, p.439, WaterBrook
“The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.”
“Not every book is for every reader.”

Source : Meg Waite Clayton (2008). “The Wednesday Sisters: A Novel”, p.99, Ballantine Books
“The object of art is to give life shape.”
“When we feel we are powerless our ego most wants to change the things in our world. As we realize we have the power to change our reality the maturity that comes with that understanding changes us, and we find ourselves in acceptance of what is with less desire of feeling our need to change the world around us.”
“Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished.”
“It was never the act itself but our own understanding of it that defeated us, over and over again.”

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