"New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions."

-- Mark Twain

#New Year Quotes #Years Quotes #Friendly Quotes

“She felt the essence of herself pulled finer and smaller like those streams of spun glass that pull and stretch till there remains but a glimmering illusion. Neither falling nor breaking, the stream spins finer. She felt herself very small and ecstatic. Alabama was in love.”
“Your existence is the only proof of mine”
“We are in an extremely precarious and urgent situation that compels immediate action”
“The power of thought, of idea, is incommensurable, is immeasurable. The world is dominated by thought.”

Source : Émile Coué (1923). “My method, including American impressions”
“If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.”
“How can you lay claim to faith, when you have no patience at all. Surely you must have heard the saying of the prophet, peace and blessings be upon him "patience is to faith, as the head is to the body."”
“It comes with age. I can't watch movies that are inhumane.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“To have found God is not an end but in itself a beginning.”

Source : Franz Rosenzweig, Nahum Norbert Glatzer (1998). “Franz Rosenzweig: His Life and Thought”, p.18, Hackett Publishing

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