"A good friend of my son's is a son to me."

-- Lois McMaster Bujold

#Son Quotes #Good Friend Quotes #Lost Friendship Quotes

“There can be no more intimate and elemental part of the individual than his or her own consciousness. At the deepest level, our consciousness is what we are - to the extent that if we are not sovereign over our own consciousness then we cannot in any meaningful sense be sovereign over anything else either.”

Source : Graham Hancock (2015). “The Divine Spark: Psychedelics, Consciousness and the Birth of Civilization”, p.8, Hay House, Inc
“Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead! Laurels and roses on their graves to-day, lilies and laurels over them we lay, and violets o'er each unforgotten head.”

Source : Richard Hovey (1908). “Along the Trail”
“When you have a company name that is to descriptive about what you do, you don't stand out.”
“Appreciate everything and everyone. Look upon every experience you've ever had, and everyone who's ever played any role in your life, as having been sent to you for your benefit. In this universe, which was created by a divine, organizing intelligence, there are simply no accidents.”
“A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.”

Source : Terry Eagleton (1991). “Ideology: An Introduction”, p.82, Verso
“The key to all fanatical beliefs is that they are self-confirming....(some beliefs are) fanatical not because they are "false", but because they are expressed in such a way that they can never be shown to be false.”
“I had been on the junior Olympic team in high school for trampoline; I could do twenty-six back flips in a row.”
“The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.”

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