"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."

-- Khalil Gibran

#Friendship Quotes #Real Friends Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“My feeling about growing up in New Jersey was, 'How come I'm not in New York?' That being said, I'm older and I have a better worldview now, and so I think I grew up in an incredibly privileged position. The town I grew up in is beautiful. I got a great education, and I'm very grateful for it.”
“Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than with pity.”
“Touch is one of the most intuitive things in the world,”
“If, by chance, someone among those men of extraordinary talent is found who has firmness of soul and who refuses to yield to the genius of his age and to debase himself with childish works, woe unto him! He will die in poverty and oblivion.”
“We are seeing, we have seen in the last figures a significant drop in the number of net migrants coming into the United Kingdom. So we are cutting out abuse, we've restricted the number of economic - non-EU economic migrants. We're cutting out abuse across the student visa system, particularly, and we're having an impact.”
“There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only that of its workmanship. A student of literature should study some of the Bible from both points of view.”

Source : Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.114, tredition
“Poverty, many can endure with dignity. Success, how few can carry off, even with decency and without baring their innermost infirmities before the public gaze!”

Source : Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (1902). “Success”
“Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.”

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