"To begin with, I had never done any good deeds; besides, even if I had simply fabricated a few, I would not have enjoyed going on about them."

-- M. Ageyev

#Done Quotes #Deeds Quotes #Enjoyed Quotes

“My reaction to ***** films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.”
“It is not by sidestepping or fleeing from suffering that we are healed, but rather by our capacity for accepting it, maturing through it and finding meaning through union with Christ, who suffered with infinite love.”
“Anything that's not positive, I don't have the energy to focus on it. Anything that's not going in the right direction, I don't have the time or the energy.”
“Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse.”
“Surfers are in tune with the weather because if there's a storm coming, there are waves coming. I love the rain.”
“Work cure is the best of all psychotherapy, in my opinion.... As well might we expect a patient to recover without food as to recover without work.... The sound man needs work to keep him sound, but the nervous invalid has an even greater need of work to draw him out of his isolation, and to stop the miseries of doubt and self-scrutiny, to win back self-respect and the support of fellowship.”
“Is it alright to believe in the future where everyone can live in happiness?”
“The deepest dark reveals the starriest hope.”

Source : Gerald Massey (1855). “The Ballad of Babe Christabel: With Other Lyrical Poems”, p.30

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