"Sometimes life turns out hard, Isabel. Sometimes it just bites right through you. And sometimes, just when you think it's done its worst, it comes back and takes another chunk."

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Source : M.L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans: A Novel”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

M. L. Stedman

#Life Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Done Quotes

“Jesus Christ opened heaven's door for us by His death on the cross.”
“I learned that I was able to focus. I've always thought of myself as somebody who is like either it's there or it isn't there. I really worked at this, and I focused, and I was able to replace self-doubt with focus. That was something new for me to say self-doubt is there, but it does not need to be in the front row. You can ask it to take a back seat and replace that front row seat with focus.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“My dreams are my work. I design out of the things that I love.”
“The thing that kills me is all these bands that use huge words in their lyrics, 'I'm swimming in a vortex of apathy.' I'm like, 'What?' I don't walk up to a friend and go 'That's a stylin' looking vortex of apathy you've got there pal. I was swimming up a river of deceit myself.'”
“When President Obama in 2011 used military power against the Qaddafi regime in Libya, he did not even notify Congress. A few in Congress mumbled, but did nothing.”

Source : Marvin Kalb (2013). “The Road to War: Presidential Commitments Honored and Betrayed”, p.3, Brookings Institution Press
“The night swelled with magic; not the beneficent kind of love-magic that sweeps couples away, but the kind of magic that rips and tears, the enchantment that creeps out of the woods and pounces.”
“Consider incompleteness as a verb.”
“Freemasonry is 'veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols' because these are the surest way by which moral and ethical truths may be taught. It is not only with the brain and with the mind that the initiate must take Freemasonry but also with the heart.”

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