"God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty."

-- John of the Cross

#Fall Quotes #Saint Quotes #World Quotes

“No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives precariously, and at discretion.”

Source : James Burgh (2009). “Political Disquisitions”, p.390, Applewood Books
“As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars. As long as diseases are rampant and millions of people in this world cannot expect to live more than twenty-eight or thirty years, I can never be totally healthy even if I just got a good checkup at Mayo Clinic. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the way our world is made. No individual or nation can stand out boasting of being independent. We are interdependent.”
“Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.”
“The most important lesson I learned...was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time. The second was that, if I hoped to live on the frontier, I would shun flashy trick-shooting--grandstand play--as I would poison...In all my life as a frontier peace officer, I did not know a really proficient gunfighter who had anything but contempt for the gun-fanner, or the man who literally shot from the hip.”
“It is base to take advantage of our rank or greatness by making fun of those placed beneath us in life.”
“One thing about dead people, they're all the same.”
“I don't like to be away from my family for long periods.”
“Make up stories until you find one you can live with.”

Source : Lidia Yuknavitch (2011). “The Chronology of Water: A Memoir”, p.194, Hawthorne Books

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