"Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted."

-- Brennan Manning

#Greatness Quotes #Soul Quotes #Growth Quotes

“Don't try to outguess what's going on in publishing, and write what you want to write.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Work cure is the best of all psychotherapy, in my opinion.... As well might we expect a patient to recover without food as to recover without work.... The sound man needs work to keep him sound, but the nervous invalid has an even greater need of work to draw him out of his isolation, and to stop the miseries of doubt and self-scrutiny, to win back self-respect and the support of fellowship.”
“There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace.”
“Citizenship means standing up for the lives that gun violence steals from us each day. I have seen the courage of parents, students, pastors, and police officers all over this country who say 'we are not afraid,' and I intend to keep trying, with or without Congress, to help stop more tragedies from visiting innocent Americans in our movie theaters, shopping malls, or schools like Sandy Hook.”
“Snobbery might sometimes look cool, like smoking, but the end result is usually a repelling one.”
“Everyone has an identity. One of their own, and one for show.”

Source : Jacqueline Susann (2016). “Valley of the Dolls: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.117, Tiger L.L.C.
“I make no apologies for any inconsistencies or contradictions in my essays. Those who do not change their minds in the course of a decade have probably stopped thinking all together. The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to make him wise forever.”
“Jump or stay in the boat.”

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