"My religion of life is always to be cheerful."

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Source : George Meredith, William Maxse Meredith (1913). “Letters of George Meredith: 1882-1909”

George Meredith

#Cheerful Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“All inspiration comes from a higher power. The body is a shell. The creative spot is from God - You hear voices, everybody does. When you get older, you refer to it as intuition.”
“We are not justified by doing good works, but being justified we then do good.”

Source : William Jenkyn, James Sherman (1839). “An Exposition Upon the Epistle of Jude: Delivered in Christ-Church, London”, p.224
“Why the devil was my husband positively grinning - and with what looked remarkably like relief?”
“Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical.”

Source : Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl
“There was a rocky valley between Buxton and Bakewell?divine as the vale of Tempe; you might have seen the gods there morning and eveningApollo and the sweet Muses of the Light? You enterprised a railroad?you blasted its rocks away? And, now, every fool in Buxton can be at Bakewell in half-an-hour, and every fool in Bakewell at Buxton.”
“I don't value authority. I don't value the systems. I don't value patriarchal religion. I don't value the things that diminish you when you do tell the truth. So I'm not scared of the end result, and that is the biggest asset I have.”
“Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.”

Source : James Dickey (1984). “Self-interviews”, p.139, LSU Press
“My mother's always looking for answers. She's always searching for new information. I think she has a thirst for hunger that very few possess innately.”

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