"But here's what I've learned in this war, in this country, in this city: to love the miracle of having been born."

-- Oriana Fallaci

#Inspirational Quotes #Country Quotes #War Quotes

“Whatever the challenge was, however unattainable the goal may have seemed, I never let anyone talk me out of believing in myself.”
“The best of life is life lived quietly, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change is imperceptible and the precious life is everything.”

Source : John McGahern (2009). “Memoir”, p.107, Faber & Faber
“Things break all the time. Glass and dishes and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a horse, a dollar. You can break the ice. There are coffee breaks and lunch breaks and prison breaks. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Chains can be broken. So can silence, and fever... promises break. Hearts break.”
“In this state [man's fallen condition], the Free Will of man toward the True God is not only wounded, maimed, infirm, bent, and weakened; but it is also imprisoned, destroyed and lost. And its powers are not only debilitated and useless unless they be assisted by grace, but it has no powers whatever except such as are excited by Divine grace.”
“Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy or inner peace, and however we try to seek it: creativity, justice, altruism, striving, completion of a plan or a piece of work.”
“We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.”
“For the first time since 2007, the FDA Has approved a new device to treat obesity. The amazing breakthrough is called a vegetable.”
“It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.”

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