"'The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the ruin of souls.'"

-- Benedict Joseph Labre

#Soul Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Examination Quotes

“The greatest crime of welfare isn't that it's a waste of money, but that it's a waste of people.”

Source : Mark Steyn (2014). “The Undocumented Mark Steyn”, p.282, Regnery Publishing
“Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.”
“I hate you." My sister said it different than she said it to my dad. She meant it with me.She really did. "I love you," was all I could say in return. "You're a freak, you know that? Everyone says so. They always have." "I'm trying not to be.â€ Then, I turned around and walked to my room and closed my door and put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.[pp.28]”
“Underneath that rude exterior, you've got a heart of gold.”
“Challenges arise to make us aware of our inner purpose.”
“Plato in his dialogue The Phaedo says that whereas sticks and stones are both equal and unequal, (so maybe what that means is that each stick is going to be equal to some other sticks and unequal to some other sticks, so equal to the stick on the left maybe but shorter than the stick on its right) the form of equal is going to be just equal, and it won't partake of inequality at all. And it will be the cause of equality in things that are equal, for example, equal sticks and stones.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.”
“If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.”

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