"Take from the altars of the past the fire - not the ashes."

-- Jean Jaures

#Past Quotes #Fire Quotes #Ashes Quotes

“Acting is not just doing! It is who you are being and what you are experiencing that causes you to do - to need to act. Then doing turns arounds and changes your being. But doing without being is lifeless.”
“Men like to become Christians without crossing racial, linguistic or class barriers”
“Theres a saying in Africa: To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.”
“I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I've been looking for.”
“You must always look with both of your eyes and listen with both of your ears. He says this is a very big world and there are many many things you could miss if you are not careful. There are remarkable things all the time, right in front of us, but our eyes have like the clouds over the sun and our lives are paler and poorer if we do not see them for what they are. If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?”
“Believing in fate produces fate. Believing in freedom will create infinite possibilities.”
“Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.”

Source : Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.94, Hachette UK
“Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs.”

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