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“May my heart be your shelter, and my arms be your home.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems

“It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper, said Mr. Bumble. So cry away.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

“There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.”
― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None

“God will not turn away from doing you good. He will keep on doing good. He doesn't do good to His children sometimes and bad to them other times. He keeps on doing good and He never will stop doing good for ten thousand ages of ages. When things are going bad that does not mean God has stopped doing good. It means He is shifting things around to get them in place for more good, if you will go on loving Him.”
― John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life

“It's not quite as valuable as if it had been written in 1929, when Martin Luther King was born.”
― Clayborne Carson, A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a great deal about them; if they do not expressly mention them, but prove attributes which are their results or definitions, it is not true that they tell us nothing about them. The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.”
― Aristotle, Metaphysics

“I do have an impulse to sort of leverage what I say against something I disagree with.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping

“The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.”
― Seth Godin, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

“I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat.”
― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

“Conscience is but a word that cowards use,
Devis'd at first to keep the strong in awe:
Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law.
March on, join bravely, let us to't pell-mell;
If not to heaven, then hand in hand to hell.”
― William Shakespeare, Richard III

“How could this be? - I thought. - Characterization is my strength!”
― Jaclyn Dolamore, Magic Under Stone

“I am a glorious child of God. I am joyful, serene, positive, and loving.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“Little things affect little minds”
― Disraeli

“If you don't know where you are going you will end up somewhere else”
― Yogi Berra, The Yogi Book : I Really Didn't Say Everything I Said

“Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done.” “It was kind of soothing, these sounds of lives being lived all around me, for better or for worse. And there I was, in the middle of them all, newly reborn and still waiting for mine to begin.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

“Never be bored, and you will never be boring.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

“If you lose money you lose much,
If you lose friends you lose more,
If you lose faith you lose all.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns 1936-62

“God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“And so we stood there in the kitchen, my mother and I, facing off over everything that had built up since June, when I was willing to hand myself over free and clear. Now I needed her to return it all to me, with the faith that I could make my own way.”
― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You

“The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has the journalist's air of being a specialist in everything, of taking in all points of view and being always on the side of the angels: Walter Helwich merely annoys a reader who has the least experience of knowing things, of what knowing is like. There is not two pence worth of real thought or real nobility in him. But he isn't dull…”
― C.S. Lewis

“He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief,
That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she.
Be not her maid since she is envious.
Her vestal livery is but sick and green,
And none but fools do wear it. Cast it off!
It is my lady. Oh, it is my love.
Oh, that she knew she were!
She speaks, yet she says nothing. What of that?
Her eye discourses. I will answer it.—
I am too bold. 'Tis not to me she speaks.
Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,
Having some business, do entreat her eyes
To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
What if her eyes were there, they in her head?
The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars
As daylight doth a lamp. Her eye in heaven
Would through the airy region stream so bright
That birds would sing and think it were not night.
See how she leans her cheek upon her hand.
Oh, that I were a glove upon that hand
That I might touch that cheek!”
― William Shakespeare

“Nothing can come of nothing.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“As merry as the day is long.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“I have at last come to the end of the Faerie Queene: and though I say "at last", I almost wish he had lived to write six books more as he had hoped to do — so much have I enjoyed it.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

“Lo! with a little rod
I did but touch the honey of romance —
And must I lose a soul's inheritance?”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband