"I thank the Lord that, even though things were so wrong in my life here, I finally was brought to the realization of what all those struggles were about. There are some wonderful things from your painful past, things with a beauty you may not have realized at the time."

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Ravi Zacharias

#Struggle Quotes #Past Quotes #Realization Quotes

“Angry men with pointy things sent to secure a foreign city are pretty much alike anywhere. That's what I've heard. So far nothing's convinced me different.”

Source : Sherwood Smith (2009). “King's Shield: Book Three of Inda”, p.432, Penguin
“Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous.”
“I am never happier than when I have something to compose, for that, after all, is my sole delight and passion”
“That celebrated marriage of science and art, photography, seemed at the time to join together how we look at the world, art, with how we were coming to know it, science.”
“Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the same way that a walk inscribes space. In The practicse of Everyday Life, Michel de Certeau writes, 'The act of walking is a process of appropriation of the topographical system on the part of the pedestrian; it is a special acting-out of the place...and it implies relations among differentiated positions.' I think this is a fancy way of saying that writing is one way of making the world our own, and that walking is another.”

Source : "The Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, and Literature of Pedestrianism". Book by Geoff Nicholson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2008.
“With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the earth is in the heavens. (105)”
“The great danger to the consumer is the monopoly -whether private or governmental. His most effective protection is free competition at home and free trade throughout the world. The consumer is protected from being exploited by one seller by the existence of another seller from whom he can buy and who is eager to sell to him. Alternative sources of supply protect the consumer far more effectively than all the Ralph Naders of the world.”
“Healing is not necessarily about curing. As your inner light grows - anything is possible.”

Source : FaceBook post by Alberto Villoldo from Nov 20, 2014

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