"We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin."

-- Mary Astell

#Pain Quotes #Grief Quotes #May Quotes

“Call it fate, destiny, call it luck you ended up with me But some things are meant to be Coincidence, circumstance Or something bigger thats just out of our hands But some things are meant to be”
“Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.”
“Oooh I get by with a little help from my friends.”
“I am the youngest of 14 children, so I rarely got a chance to speak. If I have an opportunity for talking, I talk”
“I'm looking forward, that's all, I'm not looking backwards.”
“And taking her friendâ€™s hand, she put it on her breast, on that firm round covering of a womanâ€™s heart which the male often finds so satisfying that he makes no attempt to find what lies beneath it.”
“The first, sickness (vyadhi), is a physical obstacle, but the other eight can be considered mental. These include languor (styana), doubt (samshaya), heedlessness (pramada), sloth (alasya), dissipation (avirati), false vision (bhranti-darshana), nonattainment of yogic states (alabdha-bhumikatva), and instability in these states (anavasthitatva).”
“Must someone, some unseen thing, declare what is right for it to be right? I believe that my own morality - which answers only to my heart - is more sure and true than the morality of those who do right only because they fear retribution.”

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