"You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I tire of your whining."

-- N.K. Jemisin

#Done Quotes #Tire Quotes #Whining Quotes

“Faith is the willingness to look foolish.”
“The marathon is like a bullfight.”
“If you care about animals, there is one and only one choice: go vegan. Â Can you choose not to be vegan? Â Sure. Â You can choose not to care.”
“For the child whose impulsiveness is indulged, who retains his primitive-discharge mechanisms, is not only an ill-behaved child but a child whose intellectual development is slowed down. No matter how well he is endowed intellectually, if direct action and immediate gratification are the guiding principles of his behavior, there will be less incentive to develop the higher mental processes, to reason, to employ the imagination creatively. . . .”
“Most of us are honest all the time, and all of us are honest most of the time.”
“Poetry is a second translation of the soul's feeling; it must be rendered into thought, and thought must change its nebulous robe of semi-wording into definite language, before it reaches another heart. Music is a first translation of feeling, needing no second, but entering the heart direct.”

Source : Frances Ridley Havergal (1892). “Golden Thoughts from the Life and Works of Frances Ridley Havergal ...”
“All that you think is rain is not. Behind the veil angels sometimes weep.”
“Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it.”

Source : James Stephens (2015). “Irish Fairy Tales”, p.8, Booklassic

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