"The perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which men seem incapable, but which is sometimes found in women."

-- Thomas B. Macaulay

#Men Quotes #Self Quotes #Perfect Quotes

“Once you deliberately exterminate from your life those things that quench the fire of the Spirit, then He will reveal Himself again and the old flame and passion will be yours.”
“The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.”
“You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.”

Source : Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.137, Chicken House
“If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions .”
“As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.”
“The only thing you find in the middle of the road are dead animals and dumb Americans.”
“I've got three kids. I worry about them but the gospel freed me and freed my wife. We are not trying to make our kids think that we're super spiritual or we've got it all together. They see mom and dad being real people. What they hear dad talking about at home is not different from what they see from dad [at church]. That won't guarantee that they'll avoid the whole PK, MK thing. But we are hopefully not contributing to what normally produces that crisis, which is pretending.”
“I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all”

You may also like:

Edward Gibbon
Historian
G. M. Trevelyan
Historian
Gretchen Rubin
Author
James Mill
Economist
Matthew Arnold
Poet
Robert Peel
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Samuel Johnson
Writer
Thomas Carlyle
Philosopher
William Makepeace Thackeray
Novelist