"Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace."

-- Bernard of Clairvaux

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“People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.”
“If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.”
“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. Carry it by the comfortable handles of gratitude for what's positive and that it is not worse, rather than the uncomfortable edges of bitterness for the negatives and that it is not better.”
“The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.”

Source : Great Books of the Western World vol. 1, ch. 10 (1952)
“And Thames and all the rivers of the kings Ran into Mississippi and were drowned. They planted England with a stubborn trust But the cleft dust was never English dust.”
“Usually when you do shows you're in the middle of the tour and you're all oiled up and it's just another stop. It's so much pressure for just three minutes. My stomach still hurts.”

Source : "Eels: He’s Electric". Interview with David Coggins, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 22, 2009.
“A distracted existence leads us to no goal”
“If you practice hard, you can win every battle.”

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