“Trust your feelings never disown your instincts.”
― N.G. Osborne, quote from Refuge
“To delay love is not to deny it.”
― N.G. Osborne, quote from Refuge
“Key in life is learning when to cut loose.”
― N.G. Osborne, quote from Refuge
“There's like a billion stars and planets, you'd think there'd be life on one of them. I mean why else would God go to all that trouble?
Maybe to show us how special we are?
Yet, when I look at them I feel totally insignificant. That's the genius, no?”
― N.G. Osborne, quote from Refuge
“All you create is greater dispair in these girls' lives for you can't mourn the loss of something you never knew about in the first place.”
― N.G. Osborne, quote from Refuge
“We are hashest on the ones we love the most.”
― N.G. Osborne, quote from Refuge
“there’s any life out there?” Obaidullah shakes his head. “That against your religion?” Charlie says. “To be honestly I do not know.” “There’s like billions of stars and planets, you’d think there’d be life on one of them. I mean why else would God go to all that trouble?” “Maybe to show us how special we are.” “Yet when I look at them I feel totally insignificant.” “That is the genius, no?”
― N.G. Osborne, quote from Refuge
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“When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Assassin's Apprentice
“You feel a little bit lost right now about what to do with your life, a bit rudderless and oarless and aimless but that’s okay… That’s alright because we’re all meant to be like that at twenty-four.”
― David Nicholls, quote from One Day
“But she has gathered that Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of their miniskirts and bikinis, in spite of their hand-holding on the street and lying on top of each other on the Cambridge Common, prefer their privacy.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, quote from The Namesake
“I want first of all... to be at peace with myself. I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can. I want, in fact--to borrow from the language of the saints--to live "in grace" as much of the time as possible. I am not using this term in a strictly theological sense. By grace I mean an inner harmony, essentially spiritual, which can be translated into outward harmony. I am seeking perhaps what Socrates asked for in the prayer from the Phaedrus when he said, "May the outward and inward man be one." I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, quote from Gift from the Sea
“Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing.”
― Carl Sagan, quote from Cosmos
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