"Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed."

-- Lionel Shriver

#Expectations Quotes #Dangerous Quotes

“If two people are at completely different stages in their spiritual life, that can present a real problem.”
“Once I started working, it became better and better. I really felt that I was back into the work. I was glad I was alive. Just being able to draw and paint - even if I can't walk - is worth living for.”
“The word of God has provided nine explanatory designations of the heavenly beings... the first group is forever around God and is said to be permanently united with Him ahead of any of the others and with no intermediary. Here there are the most holy 'thrones' and the orders said to possess many eyes and many wings, called in Hebrew the 'cherubim' and 'seraphim'... The second group... is made up of 'authorities,' 'dominions,' and 'powers.' And the third, at the end of the heavenly hierarchies, is the group of 'angels,' 'archangels,' and 'principalities.'”
“Can't stand it. Too many amps, too much volume, it's just flat-out ear assault. Speedy guitars leave me not feeling detached but physically upset. When you think of all the subtleties that were built into the guitar and amps for you to discover they completely cover the whole lot with a rack of effects. The guitar doesn't need that.”
“I'm not losing you again. You're with me. I want you there beside me. Always.”
“That's what they should teach us here. How girls' brains work... It would be more useful than divination, anyway...”
“Death, jewelry, or magic; it sounded like Valentine's Day.”
“Your power as a woman, as a mother, is your medicine, and it saved you. Take your courage in that.”

Source : Jim Fergus (2010). “One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd”, p.195, Macmillan

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