"The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction."

-- Charles Spurgeon

#Horse Quotes #Heart Quotes #Doors Quotes

“I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write.”
“A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.”
“Mama read it an began pulling her hair an weepin an praisin the Lord, 'cause it say I am 'Temporarily Deferred' on account of I am a numbnuts.”

Source : Winston Groom (2013). “Forrest Gump”, p.24, Random House
“It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild. (Ch.1)”
“Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.”
“I don't believe that anyone connected with bullfighting would deny that what happens in the ring has an element of suffering and perhaps cruelty to it. So then it comes back to whether the suffering and cruelty is justified by its place in a tradition that has deep roots in the culture. At present, the view in Catalonia apparently is that it does not.”
“A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we donâ€™t get to choose our own hearts. We canâ€™t make ourselves want whatâ€™s good for us or whatâ€™s good for other people. We donâ€™t get to choose the people we are.”

Source : Donna Tartt (2013). “The Goldfinch”, p.575, Hachette UK
“Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what's important to you, does not make you weaker.”

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