"There's a lot of negativity in the world. I'm trying to be positive."

-- Metta World Peace

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“The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.”
“She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer.”
“Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.”
“I think of myself as quite a confused kind of person, because I think there's so many great things about the world, but there are so many awful things too. I feel very guilty a lot of the time about enjoying my life so much when there are people living in such misery.”
“Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.”
“Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's part of any endeavour, not just writing.”
“But the question to precede all others, which finally determines the course of our lives is What do I really want? Was it to love what God commands, in the words of the collect, and to desire what He promises? Did I want what I wanted, or did I want what He wanted, no matter what it might cost?”
“As for the largest-hearted of us, what is the word we write most often in our cheque-books? "Self.”

Source : Eden Phillpotts (1918). “A Shadow Passes”

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