"The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal nobler music from Life's many frets: The golden threads are spun thro' Suffering's fire, Wherewith the marriage-robes for heaven are woven: And all the rarest hues of human life Take radiance, and are rainbow'd out in tears."

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Source : Gerald Massey (1857). “The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey: Complete in One Volume”, p.26

Gerald Massey

#Heart Quotes #Fire Quotes #Rainbow Quotes

“All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.”
“What is common to all paths that are spiritual is, of course, the Spirit-breath, life energy, that is why all true paths are essentially one path, because there is only one Spirit, one breath, one life, one energy in the universe. It belongs to none of us and all of us. We all share it. Spiritually does not make up otherworldly; it renders us more fully alive.”
“I can't never stop nobody, can't knock nobody hustle.”
“True, trust necessarily carries with it uncertainties, but we must force ourselves to think about these uncertainties as possibilities and opportunities, not as liabilities.”

Source : Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.81, Oxford University Press
“The sad truth is that truth is almost irrelevant in a court of law.”

Source : Joy Fielding (2016). “Tell Me No Secrets: A dark and suspenseful psychological thriller”, p.143, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
“I think violence has always been popular, way before movies started being made.”
“It art can only succeed through the cooperating imagination and intelligence of its consumers, who fill out, for themselves, the artist's world and make it round, and whose own special genius partly determine the ultimate glory of it.”
“It is a sure criterion of the civilisation of ancient Egypt that the soldiers did not carry arms except on duty, and that the private citizens did not carry them at all.”

Source : William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.24

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