"Our spiritual life is a life in which we wait, actively present to the moment, expecting that new things will happen to us, new things that are far beyond our own imagination or prediction. This, indeed, is a very radical stance toward life in a world preoccupied with control."

-- Henri Nouwen

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“We have to realize that treating animals well is in our best interests, too. Cruelty is indivisible; when you are cruel to an animal, you are training yourself to be cruel to people, too (and vice versa).”
“What I do respect is that Donald Trump knows that it is an emotional appeal and it might be emotional appeals that I don`t - can`t expect.But he knows that you have to appeal to the voter, and that`s why I may be wrong. I made a big deal about there`s no way he`s going to win.”
“The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity.”
“You sign an agreement; you make a contract, you live up to it. You never get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. You got a right to say yay or nay.”

Source : "ESPN's Jalen Rose weighs in on possible Heat-Cavs East final, Whiteside, Dragic". Media conference call, www.sun-sentinel.com. April 4, 2016.
“Far superior to the pleasures and rewards of the illusion that is Earthly life are the pleasure and rewards of the Reality.”
“I remember the revelation it was to me when I realized I'd rather be smart in the way Elvis Presley was than in the way, say, Ludwig Wittgenstein was. The thing was, you could imagine you could be smart like Wittgenstein by just thinking hard enough, but Elvis just had it. It was almost spiritual. A kind of grace.”
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”

Source : Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“We all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summer. The poor get it in the winter.”

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