"During my short time on earth I have realized that opportunities are seldom labeled."

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Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

John G. Shedd

#Motivational Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Discernment Quotes

“The greatest thing anyone can do for God or man is pray.”
“That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable.”
“You donâ€™t know what goes on in anyoneâ€™s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a personâ€™s life, youâ€™re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you canâ€™t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a personâ€™s life, youâ€™re messing with their entire life. Everything. . . affects everything.”
“Parenting is not logical. If it were, we would never have to read a book, never need a family therapist, and never feel the urge to call a close friend late at night for support after a particularly trying bedtime scene. . . . We have moments of logic, but life is run by a much larger force. Life is filled with disagreement, opposition, illusion, irrational thinking, miracle, meaning, surprise, and wonder.”

Source : Jeanne Elium, Don Elium (2011). “Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman”, p.223, Celestial Arts
“What is time to a water rat? What is time to the river? Only we humans obsess over days and minutes, hours and seasons.”
“It was possible, maybe, to have facts in your mind that weren't facts at all. You could build a whole life's story on false assumptions. You could make truths out of untruths and untruths out of truths. Until you spoke them, really said them out loud or checked for sure, you may not have known which were which.”
“I have always been anonymous, that is the position I should be. And it is hard to say why or how you did something, it just happens.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Jesus' death wasn't to free us from dying, but to free us from the fear of death. Jesus came to liberate us so that we could die up front and then live. Jesus Christ wants to take us to places where only dead men and women can go.”

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