The more time you put into practicing, then, the greater the payoff.
It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.
Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit.
What a terrible thing could be freedom. Trees were free when they were uprooted by the wind; ships were free when they were torn from their moorings; men were free when they were cast out of their homes—free to starve, free to perish of cold and hunger.
A great many women can feel and behave like men. Very few of them can behave like gentlemen.
You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else; only you're unexplained as yet -- you've not got your niche in creation. ~ The Well of Loneliness, 1928
Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted" -Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)
Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true nature; they are invincibly brought back to more pious sentiments. Unbelief is an accident, and faith is the only permanent state of mankind.
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
I have thought about Happy Days made into a movie. As far as the original cast not being a part of it, wow, I don't know who could be who!I just don't see it going in that direction. I can see the original cast doing the movie very easily though.
Since Dominic's been sleeping with me, the mice have been trying various labels on him, looking for one that fits. My personal favorite was the week they spent calling him "the God of Absolutely Never Smiling, No, Not Ever.