"Behind everything in London is something else, and, behind that, is something else still; and so on through the centuries, so that London as we see her is only the latest manifestation of other Londons, and to lover her is to plunge into ancestor-worship."

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Source : Henry Vollam Morton (1951). “In Search of London”

Henry Vollam Morton

#London Quotes #Lovers Quotes #Worship Quotes

“To foster inner awareness, introspection, and reasoning is more efficient than meditation and prayer.”
“A boy is naturally full of humor.”
“Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.”
“My first sense of myself was as an artist, a painter. I would see a Van Gogh painting and just love it, the more emotional and passionate the more it attracted me.”

Source : Source: poems.com
“I decided to start anew-to strip away what I had been taught, to accept as true my own thinking. This was one of the best times of my life. There was no one around to look at what I was doing, no one interested, no one to say anything about it one way or another. I was alone and singularly free, working into my own, unknown-no one to satisfy but myself. I began with charcoal and paper and decided not to use any color until it was impossible to do what I wanted to do in black and white. I believe it was June before I needed blue.”

Source : Georgia O'Keeffe (1977). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, Viking Pr
“People who can dance and sing are often very good at comedy.”
“This depravation of our nature is nothing else but the blotting out of God's image in us.”

Source : "The decades of Henry Bullinger".
“I started drinking when I was like 15, and by the time I was 19 everybody knew I was an alcoholic. So I would start five fights every weekend and lose terribly. First you start off fighting with one person and then he beats you up; and then one guy would be laughing, so you would hit him, too.”

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