"As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way."

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Walter Savage Landor

#Contentment Quotes #Way Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.”
“Hope is willing to leave unanswered questions unanswered and unknown futures unknown. Hope makes you see God's guiding hand not only in the gentle and pleasant moments but also in the shadows of disappointment and darkness.”

Source : Henri Nouwen (2004). “Turn My Mourning into Dancing”, p.60, Thomas Nelson Inc
“The great antidote to anxiety is to come to God in prayer. We are to pray about everything. Nothing is too big for Him to handle, and nothing is too small to escape His attention.”

Source : Jerry Bridges (1983). “The practice of godliness”, NavPress Publishing Group
“Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job.”
“Their racial characteristics are such that we cannot understand or trust even the citizen Japanese.”

Source : Henry L. Stimson's diary statement on the WWII Internment of Japanese Americans, February 10, 1942.
“Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences... That solves a lot of problems ... Art is something that happens, a process, not a quality, and all sorts of things can make it happen ... [W]hat makes a work of art â€˜goodâ€™ for you is not something that is already â€˜insideâ€™ it, but something that happens inside you...”
“On both sides the troops were commanded by royal princes and they massacred each other mercilessly.”
“If you were going to be attracted to a mystical faith which involved the contemplative life, Buddhism would be quite reasonable. But then, not everybody is a budding mystic. In fact, it's pretty certain that very few people are. So another kind of religion, one that was perhaps more pragmatic and service-oriented, might appeal to those others. So I think you have to take your values into account.”

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