"A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve."

-- Salman Rushdie

#Thinking Quotes #Balance Quotes #Achieve Quotes

“What a glorious morning this is!”
“True success is always the last of a string of failed attempts to get it right.”
“We drove for the sheer fun of driving because there wasn't that much money to be made.”
“I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you.”
“I can remember one time a guy told me, a guy that preached, he claimed to be a preacher, he claimed to be called of God-I asked him about his prayer life one day. He said, 'Yeah, I pray; I pray when I'm brushing my teeth.' I knew immediately that man was not called of God to stand in a pulpit. Every church he's tried to plant has been a failure. He is not a God-called man.”
“From a pound of iron, that costs little, a thousand watch-springs can be made, whose value becomes prodigious. The pound you have received from the Lord,--use it faithfully.”
“Power is a neutral energy source, like tofu. It's what you do with it that gives it flavor.”
“Jesus' life and words are a challenge at the same time that they are Good News. They are a challenge to those of us who are poor and oppressed. By His life He is calling us to give ourselves to others, to sacrifice for those who suffer, to share our lives with our brothers and sisters who are also oppressed. He is calling us to "hunger and thirst after justice" in the same way that we hunger and thirst after food and water: that is, by putting our yearning into practice.”

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