"We have to get out of the mind-set of saying, "No matter how hard we try, we will have accidents," and into "We will not have accidents.""

-- Federico Pena

#Safety Quotes #Mind Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Fear not; only believe. This is a time to make resolutions that will be binding upon you. This is a season to set standards that will hold you to the right course and make you happy now and in the years that follow.”
“Lindsey Graham is now the seventh Republican running for president. If you're keeping score, that's basically one Republican candidate for every two Republican voters.”
“Donghae always act cute. Not that he's pretending but he is naturally cute.”
“I was writing songs because I needed them, songs about trusting God in difficult circumstances.”
“Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.”

Source : Julio Cortazar (2014). “Hopscotch: A Novel”, p.216, Pantheon
“My mind was clear and penetrating at the time, for it was midnight, the hour at which I am most brave and most free.”
“The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.”
“Somewhere in the center of my soul, a rusty chain began to unwind. It freed itself, link by link, from where it had rested, unobserved, waiting for him. My hands, which had been balled up and pressed against his chest, unfurled with it. The chain continued to drop, to an unfathomable depth where there was nothing but darkness and Matthew. At last it snapped to its full length, anchoring me to a vampire. Despite the manuscript, despite the fact that my hands contained enough voltage to run a microwave, and despite the photograph, as long as I was connected to him, I was safe.”

Source : Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.172, Penguin

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