"It was entirely due to my mother [a devout Buddhist] and her kindness and perseverance that the family was saved from utter ruin. For a period of 17 years--from the age of 9 until I was 25 years old--my mother never spent a day free from domestic difficulties."

-- Chiang Kai-shek

#Mother Quotes #Perseverance Quotes #Buddhist Quotes

“I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer”
“A tale from which pieces have been raked out is like a fire that has been poked. One does not know the operation has been performed, but everyone feels the effect.”
“I love being in the studio. If I'm at home, I will go to the studio pretty much every day anyway. It's just something that I like to do.”
“My mind is my biggest asset. I expect to win every tournament I play.”
“A vision is something worth living for, and it is something worth dying for. In fact, if it is not worth dying for, it is not worth living for. Brave, godly martyrs throughout history have proven time and again that what we as Christians live for is worth dying for.”
“A friend of mine who writes history books said to me that he thought that the two creatures most to be pitied were the spider and the novelist - their lives hanging by a thread spun out of their own guts. But in some ways I think writers of fiction are the creatures most to be envied, because who else besides the spider is allowed to take that fragile thread and weave it into a pattern? What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it to create some semblance of order.”
“Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.”

Source : Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.2, Psychology Press
“The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.”

Source : Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur [Illustrated]”, p.23, XinXii

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