"We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order..."

-- Plotinus

#Beauty Quotes #Order Quotes #Ugliness Quotes

“I've learned to check the hasty words that rise to my lips, and when I feel that they mean to break out against my will, I just go away for a minute, and give myself a little shake for being so weak and wicked.”
“Wouldn't it be nice if we lived in a world where no one thought being gay was even something to ride someone about?”

Source : Bill Konigsberg (2013). “Openly Straight”, p.104, Scholastic Inc.
“I never expected to win a Grand Slam because, for me, I was not good enough to beat those guys.”
“There's nothing, repeat, nothing to be ashamed of when you're going through a depression. If you get help, the chances of your licking it are really good. But, you have to get yourself onto a safe path.”
“Through our soul is our contact with heaven.”
“Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law, and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against the equity, is the most insupportable.”
“The best musicians in the world were raised on the same kind of music I was raised on and that is black, soulful, authoritative, ultra-tight, ferocious, uppity, defiant music that from the Howlin' Wolf, the Muddy Waters, the Lightnin' Hopkins, the Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, and Little Richard.”
“Life has a way of taking its toll on the person you thought you were.”

Source : A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.18, Penguin

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