"It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise."

-- W. Somerset Maugham

#Sad Quotes #Praise Quotes #Oneself Quotes

“Except to heaven, she is nought; Except for angels, lone; Except to some wide-wandering bee, A flower superfluous blown; Except for winds, provincial; Except by butterflies, Unnoticed as a single dew That on the acre lies”
“I have decided long ago that my songs and ballads would not get the hugs and kisses of the capitalistic experts.”
“Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods.”
“The process that I want to call scientific is a process that involves the continual apprehension of meaning, the constant appraisal of significance accompanied by a running act of checking to be sure that I am doing what I want to do, and of judging correctness or incorrectness. This checking and judging and accepting, that together constitute understanding, are done by me and can be done for me by no one else. They are as private as my toothache, and without them science is dead.”
“I will make arrangements for you and Portia to return to London the following day. I will be closing up the house. I am leaving England for a while." "For how long?" I asked him, determined to keep my composure. "Until I am quite recovered from you," he said evenly. "When will you return?" "Never.”

Source : Deanna Raybourn (2015). “Silent on the Moor”, p.235, MIRA
“You canâ€™t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.”
“I can't define myself as a political writer - I don't think I've earned it, and I don't function as a political writer in the way that many of the writers I admire do. It's not simply a question of context, of where I'm writing from - there is much in American society that urgently needs to be written about. I think your work is always engaged with politics in the looser sense of the word - and that looseness is itself a kind of privilege - because politics and culture are evidently intertwined.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed.”

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