"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends."

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Charles William Eliot

#Book Quotes #Constant Quotes

“People need to be re - sometimes we need to reinvent ourselves and then get reacquainted with our better selves.”
“Being busy with work, and as a mum, I'm a big fan of online shopping.”

Source : "Kirsty Gallacher: The last five things I bought" by Dinah Turner, www.mirror.co.uk. April 14, 2012.
“Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.”
“The short-cut to popularity is to lend everyone your ears, instead of giving them your tongue”

Source : Frank Bettger (2009). “How I Raised Myself From Failure”, p.102, Simon and Schuster
“I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.”
“I've always been aware of the otherworld, of spirits that exist in that twilight place that lies in the corner of our eyes, of fairie and stranger things still that we spy only when we're not really paying attention to them, whispers and flickering shadows, here one moment, gone the instant we turn our heads for a closer look. But I couldn't always find them. And when I did, for a long time I thought they were only this excess of imagination that I carry around inside me, that somehow it was leaking out of me into the world.”
“I guess anytime you are mentioned with Hank Aaron, it is the ultimate compliment, not only as a hitter, but obviously, the great ballplayer that he was.”
“Letting the last breath come. Letting the last breath go. Dissolving, dissolving into vast space, the light body released from its heavier form. A sense of connectedness with all that is, all sense of separation dissolved in the vastness of being. Each breath melting into space as though it were the last.”

Source : Stephen Levine (2010). “Healing into Life and Death”, p.281, Anchor

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