"I have my favorite authors, but in reality, my mother did. Though she's never written a book, she paved the way for me to."

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Source : Source: romancing-the-book.com

Franny Armstrong

#Mother Quotes #Book Quotes #Reality Quotes

“President Bush called Arnold to congratulate him today, and after he got off the phone, Arnold said, 'I thought my English was bad.'”
“I like to employ the power of no. We all want to say yes, because with yes comes so much opportunity, but with the power of no comes focus and engagement.”
“Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.”

Source : Helen Hayes (1969). “Another Fawcett Crest Book”
“We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.”
“What am I responsible for? Who am I responsible to? Everybody? How come when Archie Bunker nailed everybody, it was funny - but when I do it, it's not?”
“All is fish that comth to net.”
“There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.”
“Being delivered from bodily sins is not enough; we must also cleanse the inner energy which dwells in our soul. For out of our hearts 'proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness' (Mk. 7:21) and so on ? these are what motivate people.”

Source : Saint Gregory Palamas, Christopher Veniamin, Monastery of St. John the Baptist (Essex, England) (2009). “The homilies”, Mount Thabor Pub

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