"The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them."

-- Paulo Coelho

#Life Quotes #Wise Quotes #Wisdom Quotes

“There is no greater picture than that of 10,000 smiling children. No brighter music than their clear-ringing laughter. That I, with my small amusements, have created such precious art is my life's proudest achievement.”
“... people made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a house in their imagination and building it. Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.”

Source : Joe Hill (2013). “NOS4R2”, p.439, Hachette UK
“Apocalypse could not be repealed by the democratic process.”

Source : Greg Bear (2014). “The Forge of God”, p.173, Open Road Media
“Fighting men are the city's fortress”

Source : "Fragments". Book by Alcaeus (Fragment XXII),
“Ned was clad in a white linen doublet with the direwolf of Stark on the breast; his black wool cloak was fastened at the collar by his silver hand of office. Black and white and grey, all the shades of truth.”
“We must endure to the end; . . . We must so live as to acquire the attributes of godliness and become the kind of people who can enjoy the glory and wonders of the celestial kingdom.”
“Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act.”
“No man of common sense will value a woman the less, for not giving herself up at the first attack, or for not accepting his proposal without enquiring into his person or character; on the contrary, he must think her the weakest of all creatures in the world, as the rate of men now goes; in short, he must have a very contemptible opinion of her capacities, nay, even of her understanding, that having but one cast for her life, shall cast that life away at once, and make matrimony like death, be a leap in the dark.”

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