"Regardless of the advertising campaigns may tell us, we can't have it all. Sacrifice is not an option, or an anachronism; it's a fact of life. We all cut off our own limbs to burn on some altar. The crucial thing is to choose an altar that's worth it and a limb you can accept losing. To go consenting to the sacrifice."

-- Tana French

#Cutting Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #May Quotes

“CBS is proud to have been the home of David Letterman since 1993. He is truly one of the great talents of our time, and we hope things work out.”
“I think there are times when a song can be a spiritual experience - just making music, in general, is pretty much that.”
“Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.”
“The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.”
“A person with taste is merely one who can recognize the greatest beauty in the simplest things.”

Source : FaceBook post by Barbara Taylor Bradford from Sep 21, 2014
“I love my body. And, I'm always working out. I'm an exercise freak, be it cardio, weights, t'ai chi or yoga.”
“No degree of worldly darkness can extinguish the glow of a soul's inner light.”
“We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?”

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