"Ah; but my courage fails me, and my heart is sick within me! â€”Lord, take pity on the Christian who doubts, on the skeptic who would fain believe, on the galley-slave of life who puts to sea alone, in the darkness of night, beneath a firmament illumined no longer by the consoling beacon-fires of the ancient hope."

-- Joris-Karl Huysmans

#Christian Quotes #Believe Quotes #Heart Quotes

“I always feel this pressure of being a strong and independent icon of womanhood, and without making it look my whole life is revolving around some guy. But loving someone, and being loved means so much to me. We always make fun of it and stuff. But isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?”
“When anybody says, 'Why me?' Why is 'me' exempt?”
“We have been the benefactors of our cultural heritage and the victims of our cultural narrowness.”
“Without Country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples.”

Source : Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.53, Cosimo, Inc.
“Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.”
“Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit.”
“When someone is fearless, when pain isn't a factor, it's impossible to break his spirit.”

Source : Chuck Liddell, Chad Millman (2008). “Iceman: My Fighting Life”, p.38, Penguin
“You should be more afraid of a stupid man than of an evil one.”

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