"--I truly and deeply wanted to kill him. And I believe I could have done it, with nothing but my hands. But all of a sudden, out of nowhere, Peter had an arm around me. "Let it go, Kade," he was whispering very gently, though his arm was nearly crushing me. "Open your fists," he said, "and let go of the coals."

-- David James Duncan

#Crush Quotes #Letting Go Quotes #Believe Quotes

“Most of us don't collapse into puddles of stress-related disease.”
“I was at a speaking engagement for MIT... and I said, 'The Professor has all sorts of degrees, including one from this very institution [MIT]! And that's why I can make a radio out of a coconut, and not fix a hole in a boat!'”
“I have come to understand and appreciate writers much more recently since I started working on a book last fall. Before that, I thought golf writers got up every morning, played a round of golf, had lunch, showed up for our last three holes and then went to dinner.”
“When you listen generously to people they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time.”
“And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.”
“A lot of my friends have been collectors, and I owe a lot to them. I'm always interested in sharing collections and learning that way. I used to trade tapes a lot. I still have a few friends who I trade music with, but it's hard to find the time. I miss that.”
“All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.”

Source : Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.500, Discovery House
“The number of habitable worlds in our galaxy is certainly in the tens of billions, minimum, and we haven't even talked about the moons. And the number of galaxies we can see, other than our own, is about 100 billion.”

Source : "There Are ‘Tens Of Billions’ Of Habitable Planets In Our Galaxy, Astronomer Seth Shostak Says" by Lee Speigel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2014.

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