"The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute."

-- Honore de Balzac

#Art Quotes #Motherhood Quotes #Self Quotes

“Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit.”
“That did it. I'd gone through a lot in the past few days. Everyone I met seemed to want a piece of me: djinn, magicians, humans...it made no difference.I'd been summoned, manhandled, shot at, captured, constricted, bossed about and generally taken for granted. And now, to cap it all, this bloke is joining in too, when all I'd been doing was quietly trying to kill him.”
“I don't believe less in American government because of a bad politician. I don't believe less in the Catholic Church because of a criminal priest but I wish we were doing more - and had done more in the past especially - to do something about these things. It doesn't harm my faith but it gets me just mad that these things have existed.”
“To me the pain and the blood are merely means of artistic expression.”
“To be a hero means being the author of your own myth.”
“We are bid to take, not to make our cross.”
“I'm not just gonna go after the black Jesse Jackson they all want to make fun of, but I know the wrong people are gonna laugh at that. I don't want to play to that crowd. I don't.”
“Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.”

Source : 'A Wish' (1867)

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