"I have been living in Germany for one year and my impression is that people here are on a quest for the truth, they have come to terms with the injustices of the past, there are memorial centers and remembrance projects. Germany is my spiritual home."

-- Liao Yiwu

#Spiritual Quotes #Home Quotes #Past Quotes

“I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.”
“No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture; but modern history is not a very satisfactory side-arm in political polemics; it grows less and less so.”
“Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns except as the agent of a foreign power.”
“MY THEORY: the trouble is in the mind, for the body is only the house for the mind to dwell in . . . If your mind has been deceived by some invisible enemy into a belief, you have put it into the form of a disease, with or without your knowledge. By my theory or truth I come in contact with your enemy and restore you to health and happiness.”

Source : Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (19??). “Christ Or Science: Chapter IV, the Quimby Manuscripts”
“Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.”

Source : Frederic William Farrar (1875). “Seekers After God”, p.32
“The American soldier demonstrated that, properly equipped, trained and led, he has no superior among all the armies of the world.”
“God has entrusted me with myself.”
“Jesus was not a white man; He was not a black man. He came from that part of the world that touches Africa and Asia and Europe. Christianity is not a white man's religion and don't let anybody ever tell you that it's white or black. Christ belongs to all people; He belongs to the whole world.”

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