"He had discovered that the choice between self-love or love of something other than self offers no escape from suffering either way, it is merely a choice between two woundings, of the pride or of the heart."

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Source : Elizabeth Goudge (1958). “The White Witch”

Elizabeth Goudge

#Heart Quotes #Pride Quotes #Self Quotes

“Many developing countries are enjoying demographic changes. They have a younger demographic composition so they're not burdened by legacy policy. Now, if you combine this with a good macro policy and ambitious structural policy, those countries are able to move more flexibly and be more agile.”
“I'm showing the younger generation your career doesn't have to be over when you're 16-years-old.”
“I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.”
“I've found psychedelics to be keys to worlds that have always existed, that have to be talked about.”
“And I suggested to change very simple way to Olympic Games, in one competition, two different levels. Separate from, until sixteen, and after sixteen years old.”
“Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?”
“The lessons we learn, we must learn again and again.”
“She was darkness and he was darkness and there had never been anything before this time, only darkness and his lips upon her. She tried to speak and his mouth was over hers again. Suddenly she had a wild thrill such as she had never known; joy, fear, madness, excitement, surrender to arms that were too strong, lips too bruising, fate that moved too fast.”

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