"It took me a long time to stop thinking that someone else knew what a great painting was. I was never sure."

-- Mordicai Gerstein

#Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes #Painting Quotes

“The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.”
“Itâ€™s all okay, itâ€™s all beautiful; but ah fear that this internal sea is gaunnae subside soon, leaving this poisonous ***** washed up, stranded up in ma body.”
“We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.”
“Being brave enough to just be unapologetic for who you areâ€š that's a goddess.”

Source : "Banks: 'I'm being as honest as I can'". Interview with Kate Hutchinson, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2014.
“... he trotted down the hallway on all fours and started in on his second favorite pastime, conversations with plumbing. Just what I needed: Stone, the Toilet Whisperer.”

Source : Devon Monk (2009). “Magic in the Shadows: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.290, Penguin
“I have to be honest in asking myself: Do I really want to know and do God's will? Or is it rather that I want God to do my will? Do I go to God with the assurance that I want only to know and do his will? Or do I rather first make my own plans and then insist that God make my dreams come true?”
“What the hell am I doing with my life?”
“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.”

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