"how magnanimous was a gesture if one were constantly aware of its magnanimity?"

-- Laura Lippman

#Gestures Quotes #Magnanimity Quotes

“I set up this little office space with a piano in it and I thought that would be quite a novel way of writing the album, to make it like a job - a romanticised version of the 9 to 5. I think that was probably my favourite time. I made sure I walked there every day, which took me about an hour.”
“Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure.”
“Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.”
“We are not satisfied with peace alone. There has to be prosperity, there has to be affluence, there has to be fulfillment in life, not just peace.”
“Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.”
“Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; he is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he who bestows one.”
“There is only one reason to do anything: as a statement to the universe of Who You Are.”
“The dark night of the soul is when you have lost the flavor of life but have not yet gained the fullness of divinity. So it is that we must weather that dark time, the period of transformation when what is familiar has been taken away and the new richness is not yet ours.”

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