"Feeling at peace, however fragilely, made it easy to slip into the visionary end of the dark-sight. The rose shadows said that they loved the sun, but that they also loved the dark, where their roots grew through the lightless mystery of the earth. The roses said: You do not have to choose."

-- Robin McKinley

#Dark Quotes #Sight Quotes #Roots Quotes

“Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.”
“I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.”

Source : Jack L. Chalker (1988). “Dance Band on the Titanic”, Del Rey
“And it can be a way of healing.”
“The secret principle of martial arts is not vanquishing the attacker, but resolving to avoid an encounter before its occurrence. To become an object of an attack is an indication that there was an opening in one's guard, and the important thing is to be on guard at all times.”
“There are definitely some tricks and techniques to a good reading. Rewarding the audience that shows up to your reading is very important and you can't be boring or ungrateful.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“A movie that gets a PG-13 rating can show someone running down a street killing 27 people. And there are no repercussions.”
“The Christ is a myth. The Holy Ghost Priestcraft overshadowed the harlot Superstition; this Christ was born; and the Joseph of humanity, beguiled by the Gabriel of credulity, was induced to support the family. But the soldiers of Reason have crucified the illegitimate impostor, he is dead; and the ignorant disciples and hysterical women who still linger about the cross should take his body down and bury it.”
“Gascoigne, Ben Jonson, Greville, Raleigh, Donne, Poets who wrote great poems, one by one, And spaced by many years, each line an act Through which few labor, which no men retract. This passion is the scholar's heritage”

Source : Yvor Winters (1963). “Collected Poems”

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