"Her scent blazed in my throat and I was glad. It was a pain that meant she was alive. As long as I burned, she was safe."

-- Stephenie Meyer

#Pain Quotes #Long Quotes #Alive Quotes

“In all times and in all places--in Constantinople, northwestern Zambia, Victorian England, Sparta, Arabia, . . . medieval France,Babylonia, . . . Carthage, Mahenjo-Daro, Patagonia, Kyushu, . . . Dresden--the time span between childhood and adulthood, however fleeting or prolonged, has been associated with the acquisition of virtue as it is differently defined in each society. A child may be good and morally obedient, but only in the process of arriving at womanhood or manhood does a human being become capable of virtue--that is, the qualities of mind and body that realize society's ideals.”
“Out of the firefight, into the carbon freeze." -Anakin Solo”
“It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide and apparently an impervious boundary of forests severed the possessions of the hostile provinces of France and England. The hardy colonist, and the trained European who fought at his side, frequently expended months in struggling against the rapids of the streams, or in effecting the rugged passes of the mountains, in quest of an opportunity to exhibit their courage in a more martial conflict.”
“We human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.”
“What activities, behaviors, or decisions have been most responsible for your success in life? Do more of them.”
“We have only today. Let us begin”
“Instead of doing more badly, government should focus on doing less well.”
“The rule, I think, is: Do your homework, learn what there is to learn about the real world, and then when you get in the room, forget it all.”

Source : "The Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.

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