"We must offer ourselves to God like a clean, smooth canvas and not worry ourselves about what God may choose to paint on it, but at each moment, feel only the stroke of His brush."

-- Jean-Pierre de Caussade

#Worry Quotes #May Quotes #Canvas Quotes

“Maybe you just can't protect people from certain specialized types of folly with any sane amount of regulation, and the correct response is to give up on the high social costs of inadequately protecting people from themselves under certain circumstances.”
“Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.”
“In the years just after 9/11, even being breathed on by a suspected terrorist could land you in extralegal detention for the rest of your life.”
“Heavenly comfort, rather, is truth, which blows away human fantasies that we can live forever, control everything, or fake our lives before God.”
“The Internet contains everything in the whole wide world ever. I donâ€™t know about you, but I find everything in the whole wide world ever to be a bit distracting.”

Source : Dave Gorman (2004). “Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure”, p.13, The Overlook Press
“And there is a lot of idiosyncrasy. But there are also regularities and phenomena. And what the data is going to be able to do--if there's enough of it--is uncover, in the mess and the noise of the world, some lines of music that actually have harmony. It's there, somewhere.”

Source : "The Poverty Lab". Interview with Ian Parker, www.newyorker.com. May 17, 2010.
“Overnight success just doesn't happen. You've got to put your time in. You're up and down - all of a sudden, it just clicks”
“Someone who cannot stop his outer flow of words will soon be unable to communicate with other human beings at all.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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