"Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures."

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Source : "Journal, 1932-1939". Book by François Mauriac, Table ronde, p. 6, 1947.

Francois Mauriac

#Men Quotes #Wings Quotes #Venture Quotes

“The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds.”
“It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. Librarians have stood up to the Patriot Act, sat down with noisy toddlers and reached out to illiterate adults. Libraries can never be shushed.”
“Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That's when it's so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Angelina Jolieâ€™s older brother James Haven, the one she made out with, has a license plate on his SUV that reads Shiloh. Maybe itâ€™s not that weird. After all, he could be the father.”
“The most common objection to changes in public policy which would increase a user's control of housing at the expense of centralized institutions is that standards would be lowered as a result. The standards the objectors have in mind, however, are not something that cam be achieved with available resources, but, rather, represent the objector's own notion of what housing ought to be.”
“[Grace] is given not to make us something other than ourselves but to make us radically ourselves. Grace is given not to implant in us a foreign wisdom but to make us alive to the wisdom that was born with us in our motherÂ’s womb. Grace is given not to lead us into another identity but to reconnect us to the beauty of our deepest identity. And grace is given not that we might find some exterior source of strength but that we might be established again in the deep inner security of our being and in learning to lose ourselves in love for one another to truly find ourselves.”
“I don't care when people use the term 'one-Slam wonder' with me.”
“I feel like I get really stressed out sometimes. I just want someone to tell me, "Relax, it's all going to be okay." I think that's all we really need.”

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