"A miracle entails a degree of irrationality-not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it."

-- Emmanuel Levinas

#Miracle Quotes #Degrees Quotes #Reason Quotes

“Reality and truth are not products of rational or linear thinking. They are derived from absolute wisdom as it manifests itself spontaneously, coming from the light of the Spirit.”
“Be calm in the face of all common disgraces.”

Source : Song: The House You Live In, Album: Summertime Dream
“I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.”

Source : "Spitzer Apologizes After Prostitution Case Surfaces". www.npr.org. March 10, 2008.
“[A] world in which it is wrong to murder an individual civilian and right to drop a thousand tons of high explosive on a residential area does sometimes make me wonder whether this earth of ours is not a loony bin made use of by some other planet. Not to have a national anthem would be logical.”
“Because I'm a performer I can justify and sometimes sell the things about me that offend and shock the conventional world. I need to live life in the fast lane. I need to do things to excess. I need to go over the edge. I have an obligation to experience the things most people can't experience. The taboos. The things you're not supposed to know or do. That's part of my job. That's why I do it. I would probably do it anyway.”

Source : Elizabeth Ashley, Ross Firestone (1979). “Actress: Postcards from the Road”, Fawcett Books
“We are all born naked into this world, but each of us is fully clothed in potential.”

Source : Emmitt Smith (2011). “Game On: Find Your Purpose--Pursue Your Dream”, p.3, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.”
“Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.”

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