"He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner."

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Lawrence Durrell

#Firsts Quotes #Resolution Quotes #Dare Quotes

“Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere.”

Source : Seamus Heaney (2014). “New Selected Poems 1988-2013”, p.91, Faber & Faber
“The guy who broke up with me... he was exactly like you, in the beginning. Charming, and nice. They're all like you in the beginning. But I always end up like this. And I can't do it anymore.”
“Even Bertrand Russell, who fancied he saw flaws in Christ's character, confessed nonetheless that 'What the world needs is love, Christian love, or compassion.' But this belies a belief in what most others acknowledge, namely, that Christ was the perfect manifestation of the virtue of love.”
“Watch what you say and do because little eyes are watching you.”
“If you saw that Yankee pitching too often, there would be a lot of guys doing different jobs.”
“There we will, I pray, remain and learn and grow until the time when we will rise together to the ultimate heights, changing in appearance but never in devotion, sharing the transcendent glory of our love through all eternity.”

Source : Richard Matheson (2007). “What Dreams May Come: A Novel”, p.276, Macmillan
“Today, elderly people are discarded when, in reality, they are the seat of wisdom of the society...the right to life means allowing people to live and not killing, allowing them to grow, to eat, to be educated, to be healed, and to be permitted to die with dignity.”
“Waiting is an exercise of faith that demonstrates the condition of our hearts. Waiting on God is an act of faith. And faith is what separates the men from the boys.”

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