"Before this moment I'd lived as a mind. Body, heart, soul, intellect, so we care ourselves into parts. But the whole of us, what can it be?"

-- Denis Johnson

#Heart Quotes #Soul Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Cartooning is an honorable thing”
“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.”
“A good nail does not fear being hammered.”
“I loved Martin Luther King more than a brother.”

Source : "Rights Leaders Denouncing New Book by Ex-King Aide" by Peter Applebome, www.nytimes.com. October 13, 1989.
“We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything, including instant solutions to our problems. . .It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.”

Source : Boyd K. Packer (1982). “That All May be Edified: Talks, Sermons & Commentary”, Bookcraft Pubs
“Christmas is based on an exchange of gifts, the gift of God to man - His unspeakable gift of His Son, and the gift of man to God - when we present our bodies a living sacrifice.”
“But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.”
“Of course drugs were fun.”

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