"I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It's a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me."

-- Julie Christie

#Mother Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.”
“Faith is trusting Jesus to lead us and going where He leads. What avails it to me to analyze Saratoga water, and to believe in its virtues? I must drink the water if I want its purifying power. And the soul that has not actually drunk of Christ can never be purged from sin.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 227, 1895.
“When you're too close to people, when you spend too much time with them and love them too dearly, sometimes you can't see them”
“I have to admit I didn't do as much as I should have back when I was mayor, but now we're getting it done. It's not where you've been but where you're going.”
“Change is inevitable in music - things change.”
“But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire.Â They needed only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies.Â If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning.Â Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it?Â And yet --!”
“Celebrate the feast of Christmas every day, even every moment in the interior temple of your spirit, remaining like a baby in the bosom of the heavenly Father, where you will be reborn each moment in the Divine Word, Jesus Christ.”
“She seems sort of lost.' I thought, Lost how? How am I lost? Suddenly I felt lost.”

Source : Melissa Bank (2006). “The Wonder Spot”, p.34, Penguin

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