"You can love a person deeply and sincerely whom you do not like. You can like a person passionately whom you do not love."

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Source : Robert Hugh Benson (1915). “Spiritual Letters of Monsignor R. Hugh Benson to One of His Converts”

Robert Hugh Benson

#Like You Quotes #Sincerely Quotes #Persons Quotes

“If it's planned, it's boring”
“I have little tolerance for incompetence, sloppy thinking, and laziness.”
“Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.”
“When a little pleasure has flashed for a moment against the dark, I have made that jewel mine. I have hundreds of them ... I call it my Necklace of Perfect Joy. When the world goes wrong, I have only to close my eyes and remember all the links in my chain, set with gems, some large and some small, but all beautiful with the beauty which never fades. It is all I can take with me when I go. My material possessions must stay behind, but my Necklace of Perfect Joy will bring me happiness to the end, when I put it on, to be nevermore unclasped.”
“I really enjoy the writing process because I can do it from my house. I can create these characters and take them in the different directions that I want to take them. You have a lot of freedom as a writer.”
“Each of us comes into this world separately, one by one. This is not an accident. I think it's the Lord's way of reminding us of the infinite worth of each soul.”
“Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.”
“To many writers and thinkers, though not to all, another text is, or can be, the most naked and charged of life-forces ... The concept of allusion or analogue is totally inadequate. To Dante these other texts are the organic context of identity. They are as directly about life as life is about them.”

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