"Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there."

-- Rita Mae Brown

#Literature Quotes #Quiet Quotes #Tranquility Quotes

“Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love.”
“Summer weather, like being in love,is a philosopher's stone which turns our ordinary days to gold. But not the whole day ... For it is never the whole day, never all our life which is transformed in any happiness, but only the exquisite moments.”

Source : Nan Fairbrother (1954). “An English Year”
“I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.”
“I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.”
“The Cross is the ultimate evidence that there is no length the love of God will refuse to go in effecting reconciliation.”
“Some of the old laws of Israel are clearly savage taboos of a familiar type thinly disguised as commands of the Deity.”
“You can't cure a chipped plate. All you can do is live with it or throw it out.”
“Congress, even with its frustrations, is the greatest instrument for justice and human welfare in the world.”

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