"Wherever is love and loyalty, great purposes and lofty souls, even though in a hovel or a mine, there is fairyland."

-- Charles Kingsley

#Loyalty Quotes #Soul Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“It is hungry, it it immortal. Worse, it knows nothing of whim.”
“This morning I saw a coyote walking through the sagebrush right at the very edge of the ocean â€• next stop China. The coyote was acting like he was in New Mexico or Wyoming, except that there were whales passing below. Thatâ€™s what this country does for you. Come down to Big Sur and let your soul have some room to get outside its marrow.”
“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”

Source : "Infinite Jest". Book by David Foster Wallace, February 1, 1996.
“Michael wasn't on the pool deck, which was hard for me. None of my old Coral Springs teammates were around. Still, that old plane of cement felt like home. I folded my clothes and put them on the bench. I placed my water bottle under my starting block, and I dove in. Once again, I felt that ultimate state of transition, my feet no longer on the ground, my hands not yet in the water.”
“In the ninth and tenth centuries the Vikings invaded Britain from Scandinavia and settled in large numbers. Their language, which we call Old Norse, was at least partly comprehensible to the English, who did not hesitate to take over hundreds of words from it: skirt, window, scrub, sky, give, hit, kick, scatter, scrape, skill, scowl, score, fellow, want, skin, knife, law, happy, ugly, wrong and even the pronouns they and them.”
“You see my tears, in the rain underneath it all, we're just the same.”
“People say, 'Are you afraid? Are you scared for your life?' and I tell them: If I choose today to tone it down, if I choose today to shut up, tomorrow me, you, and all of us will be forced to.”
“I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate.”

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