"We (women) take it for granted that we can do what we want. Not so very long ago, that was not the case."

-- Clare Wright

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“God's love is a gift that can make you forget yourself at times. The Scottish writer George MacDonald said, "It is the heart that is not yet sure of its God that is afraid to laugh in his presence." God loves us as we are right now! That's one of the things I'm most grateful for. I love the freedom to be myself in God. I pray that a year from now, five years from now, I will be a godlier woman, but I know God won't love me any more than he does right this minute.”
“Even without his robes an arahant is recognized simply by the effect his metta has in a crowd.”

Source : Tim Ward (2013). “What the Buddha Never Taught: A 'Behind the Robes" Account of Life in a Thai Forest Monastery”, p.207, Changemakers Books
“For the past 10 years, corporations have been trained that they should use all the different media... But the internet is becoming the umbrella.”

Source : Larry Weber (2009). “Marketing to the Social Web: How Digital Customer Communities Build Your Business”, p.12, John Wiley & Sons
“Have fun. Keep your integrity. Do what you want to do and stay true to that.”
“Vain empty words / Of honour, glory and immortal fame, / Can these recall the spirit from its place, / Or re-inspire the breathless clay with life? / What tho' your fame with all its thousand trumpets, / Sound o'er the sepulchres, will that awake / The sleeping dead.”

Source : George Sewell (1719). “The Tragedy of Sir Walter Raleigh: As it is Acted at the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields”, p.12
“Whatever you say it is, is simply what YOU SAY it is.”
“The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment”
“I was raised by a very strict, good mother, so I wont be getting out of line anytime soon.”

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