Mum Shirl Quotes

#1. Every act of suffering, no matter how small or agonisingly great, is a test of love in some way. Most of the time, suffering is also a test of our love for God.

Gregory David Roberts

#2. I was actually under a lot of heaviness when I was younger. I thought of myself as an old soul. I was very obsessed with death. Basically, I didn't really have a youth - I sublimated all that into my identity and my music.

Ariel Pink

#3. When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.

Madame De Stael

#4. [A]ll will be raised by the power of God, having spirit in their bodies, and not blood.

Sam Smith

#5. Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.

Robert A. Heinlein

#6. That if a civil war should break out in France, it would take a while to reach the south-west. I knew next to nothing about the south-west, really, only that it was a region where they ate duck confit, and duck confit struck me as incompatible with civil war.

Michel Houellebecq

#7. A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.

Lysander Spooner

#8. Red isn't your color, Bozo." Tina had said the first time Eleanor suited up. The other girls all laughed, even the black girls who hated Tina. Laughing at Eleanor was Dr. King's mountain.

Rainbow Rowell

#9. Bringing a child into the world is the greatest act of hope there is.

Louise Hart

#10. It's more important than ever that we find new ways to cultivate curiosity - because our careers, our happiness, and our children's flourishing all depend upon it.

Oliver Burkeman