"Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer."

-- Anais Nin

#Opposites Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Desire Quotes

“One brave deed makes no hero.”
“Taking the things people do wrong seriously is part of taking them seriously. Itâ€™s part of letting their actions have weight. Itâ€™s part of letting their actions be actions rather than just indifferent shopping choices; of letting their lives tell a life-story, with consequences, and losses, and gains, rather than just be a flurry of events. Itâ€™s part of letting them be real enough to be worth loving, rather than just attractive or glamorous or pretty or charismatic or cool.”

Source : Francis Spufford (2012). “Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense”, p.34, Faber & Faber
“I pray this winter be gentle and kind - a season of rest from the wheel of the mind.”
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”

Source : Ronald Reagan (1983). “A Time for Choosing: The Speeches of Ronald Reagan, 1961-1982”, Gateway Books
“Do you love this God who is everything, or do you just love everything He gives you?”
“I don't know what it is that makes a writer go to his desk in his shut-off room day after day after year after year unless it is the sure knowledge that not to have done the daily stint of writing that day is infinitely more agonizing than to write.”
“The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.”

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“The woman is not just a pleasure, nor even a problem. She is a meniscus that allows the absolute to have a shape, that lets him skate however briefly on the mystery, her presence luminous on the ordinary and the grand. Like the odor at night in Pittsburghâ€™s empty streets after summer rain on maples and sycamore.”

Source : Jack Gilbert (2013). “The Dance Most of All: Poems”, p.23, Knopf

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