"There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods."

-- Mary Renault

#Despair Quotes #Oneself Quotes

“I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.”
“Memory is not a simple replay. The bits of information that we recover from the past are often influenced by our knowledge, beliefs and feelings.”
“In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the eternal release.”
“This myth that America has this atomic bomb that makes us right, it makes us good, it makes us set the agenda for the world. Everywhere, we can go global, we determine.”
“Sometimes, we need to be strangers to ourselves. Then the hidden light in our soul will illuminate what we need to see.”
“The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.”
“There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.”

Source : Pamela Hansford Johnson (2012). “Night and Silence, Who is Here?”, p.116, Pan Macmillan
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