"Quotes are like cayenne pepper or some other strong spice: a little goes a long way, and too much is a disaster."

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Source : "Yagoda’s Rules for Quotes, 2.0". benyagoda.com. August 25, 2015.

Ben Yagoda

#Strong Quotes #Long Quotes #Peppers Quotes

“To be alive is to be addicted, and to be alive and addicted is to stand in need of grace.”

Source : Gerald G. May (2009). “Addiction and Grace: Love and Spirituality in the Healing of Addictions”, p.16, Harper Collins
“In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru.”
“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.”

Source : Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.87, BookBaby
“Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.”

Source : Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.20, Macmillan
“I was fortunate to be around a couple of coaches who took me under their wing and taught me how to train, how to work and how to prepare myself for a game. They gave me so much, and I saw the passion they had for the game and for teaching it. What I learned from them led me to want to become a teacher and coach.”
“Only what we have lost forever do we possess forever. Only when we have drunk from the river of darkness can we truly see. Only when our legs have rotted off can we truly dance. As long as there is death, there is hope”
“Your afflictions may only prove that you are more immediately under the Father's hand. There is no time that the patient is such an object of tender interest to the surgeon, as when he is bleeding beneath his knife. So you may be sure if you are suffering from the hand of a reconciled God, that His eye is all the more bent on you.”
“We like to talk about having the faith to be healed - what about the faith to be sick?.”

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