"The great love is gone. There are still little loves - friend to friend, brother to sister, student to teacher. Will you deny yourself comfort at the hearthfire of a cottage because you may no longer sit by the fireplace of a palace? Will you deny yourself to those who reach out to you in hopes of warming themselves at your hearthfire?"

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Source : Mercedes Lackey (2016). “The Last Herald-Mage Trilogy”, p.188, Penguin

Mercedes Lackey

#Teacher Quotes #Brother Quotes #Lost Love Quotes

“To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.”
“The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year.”
“Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy--members of a ;naked society and denizens of a goldfish bowl.”
“The mind aware of itself is a pilot... vastly freer than a passenger mind.”
“We remake the world through our technologies, and these in turn remake and extend us, in ever spiraling lattices of complexity. McLuhan uncannily foresaw the future, where electronic technology would shape and expand cultures and societies into a global membrane of communications.”
“I'm delighted. I don't know of anybody who had a statue built of them while they were living. It's a great feeling.”
“The gospel of a God found in broken flesh, humility, and measureless charity has defeated all the old lies, rendered the ancient order visibly insufficient and even slightly absurd, and instilled in us a longing for transcendent love so deep that-if once yielded to-it will never grant us rest anywhere but in Christ.”
“You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.”

Source : Interview with David Medsker, www.bullz-eye.com. February 3, 2006.

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