Desanka Maksimovic Quotes

#1. A war fitness conference some time ago declared that the highest form of recreation is to go to church. The word recreation should be written re-creation. More real rest can be gained from an hour and a quarter of worship under these circumstances than by eighteen holes of golf.

Norman Vincent Peale

#2. May you and I run in such a way to receive the prize of gold when we run the race of passionate faith ...

Angela Thomas

#3. Knowledge is dangerous. Once you know something, you can't get rid of it. You have to carry it. Always.

Samantha Shannon

#4. There is no way of making a hedge grow like pruning it. There is no way of making sex interesting like repressing it.

Alan Watts

#5. Do not allow your sad past to rule your present situation. Unlike a tango, it does not take to two to forgive.

Stephen Richards

#6. Critiques of rape, pornography, and prostitution are "sex-negative" without qualification or examination, perhaps because so many men use these ignoble routes of access and domination to get laid, and without them the number of fucks would so significantly decrease that men might nearly be chaste.

Andrea Dworkin

#7. Whoever is not able to sacrifice, has no talent for love.

Desanka Maksimovic