"Our advantages fly away without aid. Pluck the flower. [Lat., Nostra sine auxilio fugiunt bona. Carpite florem.]"

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Ovid

#Flower Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Fly Away Quotes

“A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.”
“I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.”
“No earthly pleasures, no kingdoms of this world can benefit me in any way. I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire. Do not talk about Jesus Christ as long as you love this world.”
“Life is about opportunities, creating them and embracing them, and for me, that was the Olympic dream. That's what defined me. That was my bliss.”
“Religion has the capacity to silence critical thinking and create blindness in entire groups of people. It can infect the minds of followers so completely as to allow the most egregious sexual acts against children and others to go unchallenged for centuries.”
“...there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do -- determined to save the only life you could save.”
“True love heals and affects spiritual growth. If we do not grow because of someone elseâ€™s love, itâ€™s generally because it is a counterfeit form of love.”

Source : John Bradshaw (1988). “Healing the Shame that Binds You”, p.154, Health Communications, Inc.
“He kissed her as though he were starved for her. Like he'd been held away from her and had finally broken free. It was the kind of kiss that lived only in her fantasies. No one had ever made her feel so..consumed.”

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