"Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions."

-- Franklin Foer

#Soccer Quotes #Buddhism Quotes #Community Quotes

“From the perspective of the one committing suicide, his or her act can be one of the most perverse forms of moral manipulation, as it abandons those left behind to their shame, guilt, and grief. Suicide is something like a metaphysical "I gotcha!" It is often an attempt to kill or wound others.”
“Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over; but He saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt.”
“And only weaklings...who lack courage and the power to feel they're right when the whole world says they're wrong, ever lose.”
“Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.”
“I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A danger sign that fellow-obsessionals will at once recognize is the tendency to regard the happiest moments of your life as those that occur when someone who has an appointment to see you is prevented from coming.”
“He who loves not flowers, has lost all love and fear of God.”

Source : "Tales of Fairy land".
“It is my contention that value does not mix so well with debt.”

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