"In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October."

-- Alexander Smith

#Years Quotes #Circles Quotes #October Quotes

“only you can decide how your fires will affect you. Will you be sanctified or scarred”
“There is no knowing beyond that membrane, the meniscus of death. What can be seen from here is distorted, refracted. All we can know are those untrustworthy glimpses--that and rumour. The prattle. The dead gossip: it is the reverberation of that gossip against the surface tension of death that the better mediums hear. It is like listening to whispered secrets through a toilet door. It is a crude and muffled susurrus.”
“The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can.”

Source : FaceBook post by Malcolm Gladwell from Jul 31, 2014
“If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.”
“Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.”

Source : Peter Marshall (1949). “Prayers Offered by the Chaplain, the Rev. Peter Marshall, D.D.: At the Opening of the Daily Sessions of the Senate of the United States During the Eightieth and Eighty-first Congress 1947-1949”
“I challenge you to be dreamers; I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better.”
“My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.”
“You think to yourself, “If one drink feels really good and two feels really, really good, a hundred ought to feel fantastic.” As sane people know, it doesn't work that way. A hundred drinks feels terrible. Bad things happen. But the addict keeps at it, thinking at some point it's going to get good again The point is to not feel what you're feeling. The problem is, you become someone you never thought you would become, and you have no idea how you got there.”

Source : Kim Severson (2010). “Spoon Fed: How Eight Cooks Saved My Life”, p.13, Penguin

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