"Give the benefit of the doubt; assume that your beloved's intentions are life-enhancing and positive."

-- John Friend

#Giving Quotes #Doubt Quotes #Benefits Quotes

“Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.”
“For three million years we were hunter-gatherers, and it was through the evolutionary pressures of that way of life that a brain so adaptable and so creative eventually emerged. Today we stand with the brains of hunter-gatherers in our heads, looking out on a modern world made comfortable for some by the fruits of human inventiveness, and made miserable for others by the scandal of deprivation in the midst of plenty.”
“There are so many people who have a training in art history; and if you've spent time looking at old art, you become attuned to what art does through materiality and so you begin to look to that in contemporary art as well. And anyway, I do think that matching one's experience with what you're looking at and questioning what you're looking inevitably involves materiality, just like it involves the sense of place.”
“Our time on earth is not well spent by counting rewards before God has given them to us, but rather, by looking for our faults and repenting of them”
“Gratitude is the richest, most joyful feeling humans are privileged to experience.”
“Every world has dogs or their equivalent, creatures that thrive on companionship, creatures that are of a high order of intelligence although not the highest and that therefore is simple enough in their wants and needs to remain innocent. The combination of their innocence and their intelligence allows them to serve as a bridge bewtween what is transient and what is eternal, between the finate and the infinate.”
“I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?”
“I have a really adaptable face, but when I am just being me, people always think I am younger than I am.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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