"If we remove desire to be better, we become mediocre."

-- Rafael Cruz

#Desire Quotes #Mediocre Quotes #Remove Quotes

“In Europe you learn not to fail, and in America you fail to learn. You need failure.”
“God notices you. The fact is he can't take his eyes off of you. However badly you think of yourself, God is crazy about you. God is in love with you. Some of us even fear that someday we'll do something so bad that he won't notice us anymore. Well, let me tell you, God loves you completely. And he knew us at our worst before he ever began to love us at all. And in the love of God there are no degrees, there is only love.”
“Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp”
“It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good of the group; an emotion that brings pleasure, pride, or even thrills from coordinated group activity.”

Source : Mark Pagel (2012). “Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind”, p.90, W. W. Norton & Company
“She lay on her back and walked her fingers down her ribs, skipped them over her abdomen, and landed on her pelvic bones. She tapped them with her Knuckles. [. . .] I can hear my bones, she thought. Her fingers moved up from her pelvic bones to her waist. The elastic of her underpants barely touched the center of her abdomen. The bridge is almost finished, she thought. The elastic hung loosely around each thigh. More progress. She put her knees together and raised them in the air. No matter how tightly she pressed them together, her thighs did not touch.”
“The amphibious landing of U.S. Marines on September 1950 at Inchon, on the west coast of Korea, was one of the most audacious and spectacularly successful amphibious landings in all naval history.”
“Christianity has from its beginning portrayed itself as a gospel of peace, a way of reconciliation (with God, with other creatures), and a new model of human community, offering the 'peace which passes understanding' to a world enmeshed in sin and violence. (1)”

Source : David Bentley Hart (2003). “The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth”, Eerdmans Publishing Company
“We'll leave now, so that this moment will remain a perfect memory...let it be our song and think of me every time you hear it.”

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