"Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?"

-- Tryon Edwards

#Disappointment Quotes #Blessed Quotes #Parent Quotes

“In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world.”
“Now that I've met you and spoken to you and felt you and tasted you, I'm done. That's it. You're the end for me.”

Source : Christine Warren (2010). “Born To Be Wild”, p.223, Macmillan
“As we manipulate everyday words, we forget that they are fragments of ancient and eternal stories, that we are building our houses with broken pieces of sculptures and ruined statues of gods as the barbarians did.”

Source : Wojciech Chmurzyński, Bruno Schulz, Muzeum Literatury im. Adama Mickiewicza w Warszawie (1995). “Bruno Schulz 1892-1942: katalog-pamiętnik wystawy "Bruno Schulz. Ad memoriam" w Muzeum Literatury im. Adama Mickiewicza w Warszawie”
“It may make a difference to all eternity whether we do right or wrong today.”

Source : James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture, lectures”
“Medicine for the soul.”

Source : Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes. I. 49. 3.,
“Jerusalem Maiden is a page-turning and thought-provoking novel. Extraordinary sensory detail vividly conjures another time and place; heroine Esther Kaminskyâ€™s poignant struggle transcends time and place. The ultimate revelation here: for many women, if not most, 2011 is no different than 1911, but triumph is nonetheless possible.”
“Given angel's wings, where might you fly? In what sweet heaven might you find your love? Unwilling to be bound, where might you move, Lost between the wonder and the why?...”
“To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem.”

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