"I was filled with angst in college, that I struggled with the question of my future, the meaning of my life - spoiled sheltered rich girl collides with great books and is devastated by her own banality."

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Elizabeth Kostova

#Girl Quotes #Book Quotes #College Quotes

“It's not whether you won or lost, but how many bad-beat stories you were able to tell.”
“You can't fight your fate...It is predestined.”
“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.”
“Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions.”
“Prayer is the burden of revival; repentance is the breakthrough of revival; evangelism is the blessing of revival; holiness is the bounty of revival.”
“Full many wanton babes have I, Which must be stilled with lullaby.”

Source : George Gascoigne, Roger Pooley (1982). “The green knight: selected poetry and prose”, Carcanet Pr
“Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter.”
“The thing is that oftentimes, we want to be everything all at once. We want to be strong and mature, and God wants that for us, too. But just like that flowerpot had to sit in the sun and receive water day after day, we have to sit in God's presence every day, too.”

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