"How we fall into grace. You can't work or earn your way into it. You just fall. It lies below, it lies beyond. It comes to you, unbidden."

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Source : Rick Bass (2001). “Colter: The True Story of the Best Dog I Ever Had”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Rick Bass

#Lying Quotes #Fall Quotes #Grace Quotes

“I do not truly consider myself an icon, but the Cube has been quite successful.”
“I always wanted to work with Betty White, because she is one of my heroes of all time, and I just love her.”

Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. December 22, 2008.
“Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.”
“I'm a deeply privileged person. I have a safe, comfortable life, and there's very little at risk for me. I'm not going to get disowned by my family for talking about having an abortion, and I'm not risking my job or homelessness by saying something controversial that my employer might not like. I have this gift of stability and it feels obligatory to use that to make the world better in whatever small ways I can. It's incredibly fulfilling. Even helping one person feel a little bit better is really important to me and makes me feel like my life means something.”
“A developed country isn’t a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.”
“Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!”
“My personal opinion is, how, if you never hung out with somebody, do you know them so well? I never hung out with that dude because the dude is a weirdo.”
“There's no question you get caught up in the drama but I always concentrate on whose winning and whose losing that's for sure. That's one thing you can't do in boxing is lose your concentration, watch your mind wander.”

Source : Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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