"If I cannot in honest happiness take the second place (or the twentieth); if I cannot take the first without making a fuss about my unworthiness, then I know nothing of Calvary love."

-- Amy Carmichael

#Humility Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Honest Quotes

“Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.”
“Many of my friends were blacklisted. America should be ashamed of it forever.”
“The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable, and even fatal, to the life of others.”

Source : Arthur James Balfour (1895). “The Foundations of Belief: Being Notes Introductory to the Study of Theology”
“In order to benefit; however, you must believe that life is plotting for you. We often resist this emerging impulse or this urge to emerge because we are afraid of change, right? To the ego, change is equivalent to danger or death. But when we deny this evolutionary call, it causes an inner pressure that must find an outlet, sometimes in destructive ways. And this can break out as disease, financial collapse, or relationship meltdown.”
“It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction.”
“In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.”
“Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations.”
“My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight.”

Source : Hugh Howey (2013). “Wool”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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