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“To a man who was required to marry before he was allowed to have sex with his lover, marriage is a ‘righteous’ form of prostitution.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Never miss a good chance to shut up.”
― Will Rogers

“Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.”
― Will Rogers

“Don't let yesterday take up too much of today”
― Will Rogers

“Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.”
― Will Rogers

“Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.”
― Will Rogers

“Hell is truth seen too late.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.”
― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“..for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch