"This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me"

-- Patricia McCormick

#Life Quotes #Believe Quotes #Stubborn Quotes

“It's impossible to satisfy everyone, and I suggest we all stop trying.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I believe there's a calling for all of us. I know that every human being has value and purpose. The real work of our lives is to become aware. And awakened. To answer the call.”
“Now, if anything at all can be known to be wrong, it seems to me to be unshakably certain that it would be wrong to make any sentient being suffer eternally for any offence whatever.”

Source : Antony Flew (1984). “God, freedom, and immortality: a critical analysis”
“The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.”
“My first published novel, American Rust, took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.”

Source : Interview with Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14-21, 2010.
“The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing.”
“...Vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.”
“There are a lot of people out there who lie about their age and I think it does us all a disservice. It can't all be over when you hit 30. That would be rubbish.”

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