"Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?"

-- Rose Kennedy

#Adversity Quotes #Bird Quotes #Singing Quotes

“Nothing, I believe, can really teach us the nature and meaning of inspiration but personal experience of it. That we may all have such experience if we will but attend to the divine influences in our own hearts, is the cardinal doctrine of Quakerism.”

Source : Caroline Emelia Stephen (1890). “Quaker Strongholds”
“He did not feel the ground under his feet - he thrust himself into the capriole, rose high in the air-forelegs and hind legs horizontal. He soared above the ground, he head in jubilation. Conquering!”
“He could bear the dying, but not the disappointment.”
“Indonesia isn't the most beautiful country in the world. I don't think so. Italy is much lovelier - and France too. It's a very problematic country. And that's why you have to stay here for the rest of your life. Indonesia is a process. It's not a finished idea. It's a practice, and a trial and error.”
“Even as the angry vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them. Jesus Christ had died for this man; was I going to ask for more? Lord Jesus, I prayed, forgive me and help me to forgive him....Jesus, I cannot forgive him. Give me your forgiveness....And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but on His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives along with the command, the love itself.”
“Having a person of Dr. Berthiaume's calibre leading Library and Archives Canada will be a solid asset to the organization. His extensive experience in the management of large cultural organizations and his strong leadership are important qualifications for this position.”
“We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams... Yet we are the movers and shakers of the world for ever, it seems.”
“Life is like a box of chocolates, I'm a nerd and I read books”

Source : "Forrest Gump". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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