"I am one of the lingering bad ones, and so do I slink away, and pause, and ponder, and ponder, and pause, and do work without knowing why - not surely for this brief world, and more sure it is not for heaven - and I ask what this message of Christ means."

-- Emily Dickinson

#Mean Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“It's amazing - you may not realize it, but so much of what you are not is because you are literally standing in your own way of becoming. And what I'm pleading with you about is, get the hell out of your own way.”
“The ideal doctor is patient.”
“You must learn to question everything. To wait before moving, to look before stepping, and to observe everything”
“Preparedness is the ultimate confidence builder.”
“I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published.”
“The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.”
“Most people are trying to go digital, and trying to do different things with poetry. McSweeney's is going in the opposite direction - going more classic, and retro, which is all coming back.”
“Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.”

Source : Brandon Sanderson (2009). “Warbreaker”, p.82, Macmillan

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