"One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk."

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Source : Alice Munro (2015). “A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994”, p.362, Vintage

Alice Munro

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“The doubters are always more blessed than the mere fellow travelers in faith. For they are the only ones who fully learn that their Lord is stronger than any doubt and any hell of despair.”

Source : Helmut Thielicke, John W. Doberstein (1966). “Life Can Begin Again: Sermons on the Sermon on the Mount”, p.65, James Clarke & Co.
“There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.”
“And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.”

Source : "The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew". Book by Lee Kuan Yew, 1998.
“The roots of effective leadership lie in simple things, one of which is listening. Listening to someone demonstrates respect; it shows that you value their ideas and are willing to hear them.”
“I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place.”
“I just enjoy playing in wind, grew up in it, and it makes the golf a bit more fun.”
“What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedome depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.”
“When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.”

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