"...the synagogin', the tabernaclin', the psalmin', that goes on in this hoose, that's enough to break the spirits o' ony young creature."

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Source : Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1825). “The inheritance, by the author of Marriage”, p.121

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

#Women Quotes #Religion Quotes #Goes On Quotes

“We do not become. We simply are.”
“Hard work isn't enough. You got to believe”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 16, 2012
“None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations. A life of pleasure is, therefore, the most unpleasing life.”
“I'm sad. Pressed down by sorrow. I'm angry. Pissed at God, if there is one, and the way things are. I'm scared. Confused by the whys. Why are we here? Is there, really, some intelligent design? Why do we cry for someone who leaves us if there's some Grand Pearly Gate in the sky? Why worry about how we build our lives if the ultimate ending for all is death, a single breath away? (358)”
“Innovation without insight is failure.”
“I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.”
“There's a million reasons why I should give you up. But the heart wants what it wants.”
“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do”

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