"For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing."

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

#Reality Quotes #Rocks Quotes #Wings Quotes

“All of my jokes were about not being able to meet anybody. I didn't have any insight into anything - even my own insecurities.”
“I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.”
“Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally.”
“The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.”

Source : Abraham Flexner (2017). “The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge”, p.52, Princeton University Press
“I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents.... The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?”
“Torture takes over someone's nervous system. Torture takes over what they feel. Torture takes over and penetrates into their mind and into their body. It's not only illegal, it's immoral.”
“Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.”

Source : St. Alphonsus Liguori (2015). “How to Converse with God”, p.4, TAN Books
“The Eucharist is the bread that gives strength... It is at once the most eloquent proof of His love and the most powerful means of fostering His love in us. He gives Himself every day so that our hearts as burning coals may set afire the hearts of the faithful.”

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