"Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life."

-- Merle Shain

#Love Quotes #Fear Quotes #Joy Quotes

“The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want. And really, if you think about it from the point of view of the customer, you want everything: a wide assortment of good quality merchandise; the lowest possible prices; guaranteed satisfaction with what you buy; friendly, knowledgeable service; convenient hours; free parking; a pleasant shopping experience.”
“The honorary duty of a human being is to love.”
“We, one and all of us, have an instinct to pray; and this fact constitutes an invitation from God to pray.”

Source : Charles Sanders Peirce “Scientific meta-physics”
“The Gods have proclaimed Christ to have been most pious, but the Christians are a confused and vicious sect.”
“"I do not believe that Jesus, at the end of his earthly sojourn, returned to God by ascending in any literal sense into a heaven located somewhere in the sky. My knowledge of the size of this universe reduces that concept to nonsense."”
“Consciousness rap - a term that I don't think exactly exists but gets thrown around a lot - is not exactly popular.”
“The woman is the man's glory, and she naturally delights in the praises which are assurances that she is fulfilling her function; and she gives herself to him who succeeds in convincing her that she, of all others, is best able to discharge it for him. A woman without this kind of "vanity" is a monster.”

Source : Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Rod, the Root and the Flower”, p.20, Lulu.com
“Our people should feel free to express diverse views, pursue unconventional ideas or simply be different.”

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