"There are two kinds of love: we love wise and kind and beautiful people because we need them, but we love (or try to love) stupid and disagreeable people because they need us. This second kind is the more divine because that is how God loves us: not because we are lovable but because He is love, not because He needs to receive but He delights to give."

-- C. S. Lewis

#Beautiful Quotes #Wise Quotes #Stupid Quotes

“Sometimes you remember your life in photographs that were never taken.”

Source : Jackie Kay (2016). “Trumpet: Picador Classic”, p.66, Pan Macmillan
“And I realized that sometimes the greatest triumphs in your life come in on little cat feet and sit on silent haunches and it's up to you to see it before it moves on.”
“Eating when you're not hungry and taking in that amount of food is exhausting.”
“The Lord had been very gracious, and spoke peace to me in the time of my distress, and I now most ungratefully turned again to folly; at times I felt sharp reproof, but I did not get low enough to cry for help.”
“Always ask for advice but never take it.”

Source : Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst (1959). “Heirs and rebels: letters written to each other and occasional writings on music”
“The use of violence is justified only under a tyranny which makes reforms without violence impossible, and should have only one aim, that is, to bring about a state of affairs which makes reforms without violence possible.”
“I started early, took my dog, And visited the sea; The mermaids in the basement Came out to look at me”
“At first, students tend to freeze at the first effort. The breakthrough comes when they realize that they can make it better - can identify what their purposes were and realize better ways to achieve those purposes.”

Source : "An Interview with M. H. Abrams by Sharon Hamilton". People's Education, March 10, 2007.

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