"I am secretly afraid of animals.... I think it is because of the usness in their eyes, with the underlying not-usness which beliesit, and is so tragic a reminder of the lost age when we human beings branched off and left them: left them to eternal inarticulateness and slavery. Why? their eyes seem to ask us."

-- Edith Wharton

#Eye Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Animal Quotes

“I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.”
“We need to send our words out in the direction we want them to go. In other words, we need to start talking victory when weâ€™re staring at defeat. We need to start talking healing when weâ€™re feeling sick. We need to start blessing and prosperity when we donâ€™t have anything. We need to speak about marching when we feel like quitting.”

Source : Jentezen Franklin (2012). “Believe That You Can: Moving with Faith and Tenacity to the Dream God Has Given You”, p.195, Charisma Media
“Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the only normal writer left on earth -- and it is this that adds to his isolation and so too his so sense of guilt.”

Source : "Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place: Stories".
“We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.”
“I finally learned to love myself by dressing up as Geri Halliwell.”
“I don't think I ever feel sexy. I don't think that's for me to decide, if I'm sexy or not.”
“I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.”
“I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.”

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