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Ayana Mathis

"A belief in God may not be fully within me anymore, but there's still a belief in belief. The high drama and power of the Church has stayed with me. As a child in church, I saw grown men at the altar crying out for God's mercy. And the idea of someone doing that has become a joke in the popular culture, but when you are there and you see it, you experience - for a moment - an incredibly raw, honest, strange insight into what it means to be a human being. Those experiences don't leave you. Whatever you think of them, they are powerful experiences."

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Ayana Mathis

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“Fact: If you donâ€™t have an effective plan for selling, any business you get is accidental.”
“His scars were hidden and safe in her hand.”
“How can love survive in such a graceless age? The trust and self assurance that lead to happiness, they're the very things we kill.”

Source : Song: The Heart Of The Matter, Album: The End of the Innocence
“Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.”

Source : Gregory Maguire (2009). “A Lion Among Men: Volume Three in The Wicked Years”, p.25, Harper Collins
“The men upon whose shoulders rested the initial responsibility of Christianizing the world came to Jesus with one supreme request. They did not say, 'Lord, teach us to preach'; Lord, teach us to do miracles,' or 'Lord, teach us to be wise'...but they said, 'Lord, teach us to pray.'”
“Just the sound of his voice twists my stomach into a knot of unpleasant emotions like guilt, sadness and fear. And longing. I might as well admit thereâ€™s some of that too.”
“Just skate for fun, don't pick up a skateboard because you want to be a pro one day. Don't forget why you started skating in the first place.”
“According to the prevailing mythology, to be younger is to be better; therefore, we should expect to find young people in the majority of those who reflect high well-being... In fact, the one finding that registered more consistently and emphatically than any other in the course of my research was this: Older is better.”

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