"Which would you rather be...divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?"

-- Anne Shirley

#Beautiful Quotes #Clever Quotes

“I'd been so set on an escape that was now impossible, and the only form of freedom left to me was death. It was a terrible kind of freedomâ€”one from misery and pain, yes, but also one from lightness and laughter and life. It was an absence of everything.”

Source : Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown”, p.144, Faber & Faber
“Sometimes I long for a convent cell, with the sublime wisdom of centuries set out on bookshelves all along the wall and a view across the cornfields--there must be cornfields and they must wave in the breeze--and there I would immerse myself in the wisdom of the ages and in myself. Then I might perhaps find peace and clarity. But that would be no great feat. It is right here, in this very place, in the here and the now, that I must find them.”
“Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive, for change is the enemy of myth.”

Source : Elizabeth Janeway (1981). “Powers of the weak”, William Morrow & Co
“A pivotal spiritual attribute is that of self-mastery-th e strength to place reason over appetite. Self-mastery builds a strong conscience. And your conscience determines your moral responses in difficult, tempting, and trying situations.”
“For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.”
“Religion is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling”
“Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldnâ€™t hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.”
“The most valuable things in a life are a man's memories. And they are priceless.”

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