"Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope."

-- Elizabeth Bear

#Tragedy Quotes #Minors Quotes

“I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design.”
“It's great when you know somebody and they keep surprising you.”

Source : Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 3, 2010.
“I may repeat 'Do as you would be done by' till I am black in the face, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbor as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbor as myself till I learn to love God;and I cannot learn to love God except by learning to obey him.”
“Man is completely out of phase with nature. Nature is woman. Man is the intruder. The man who re-attunes himself with nature is the man who de-mans himself or eliminates himself as man.”

Source : "Lesbian Nation". Book by Jill Johnston, p. 190, 1973.
“Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just; a God who is all love, but not holy; a God who as a heaven for every body, but a hell for none; a God who can allow good and bad to be side by side in time, but will make no distinction between good and broad in eternity. Such a God is an idol of your own, as truly an idol as any snake or crocodile in an Egyptian temple. The hands of your own fancy and sentimentality have made him. He is not the God of the Bible, and beside the God of the Bible there is no God at all.”
“I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them.”
“How did you-" Fool your guards? They're not very good, the forgot to check the ceiling for spiders."Valek grinned. His angular face softened.”
“Depression is the flip side of creative inspiration but it can be useful. It's telling you to stop for a little bit. You can become so fully absorbed in the world of creative work that it can lead to some imbalance in your life.”

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