"Everything is always a story, but the loveliest ones are those that get written and are not torn up and are taken to a friend as payment for listening, for putting a wise keyhole to the ear of my mind"

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Source : Janet Frame (1951). “The lagoon: stories”

Janet Frame

#Wise Quotes #Taken Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Failure is but the longer road to triumph.”
“When you are losing it can seem like there is a black cloud following you around, but like they say there is a silver lining in every cloud.”

Source : "Super Speedway". Documentary, Action, Sport, 1997.
“Our willingness to be used as God's vessels can make His Father-heart a reality to our hurting world.”

Source : Floyd McClung (2004). “The Father Heart of God”, p.97, Harvest House Publishers
“For seven years I wrote and published my texts on the Internet and no Arab festival invited me and no Arab publishing house wanted to publish my books, and I wasn't known in the Western world because of my political positions.”
“I love polarizing people.”
“I'll try to be careful, but I know I'm not immune, cause I just can't imagine how I'd ever come to harm with this feeling that I'm feeling as I'm drowning in your arms.”

Source : Song: Dance With Me Slow, Album: You Hold the Key
“There is an alarming increase of violence and harassment against gay people, something that is being legitimized by the regime as they brand homosexuality as something abnormal and dangerous to children.”

Source : "Situation in Russia". Personal blog at the European Commission website, ec.europa.eu. January 17, 2014.
“Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars.”

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