"I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you Lord Jesus."

-- Jim Elliot

#Jesus Quotes #Long Quotes #Like You Quotes

“If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you gently sail on the stream of Time, which is always bearing you on to the haven of Pay, whether you make any effort, or not.”
“When readers close the covers on Running the Rift, I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.”

Source : "Interview with author Naomi Benaron: Running the Rift". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. January 3, 2012.
“Could it be that time is too narrow for all events? Could it happen that all the seats within time might have been sold? Worried, we run along the train of events, preparing ourselves for the journey.”

Source : Bruno Schulz, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Goldfarb (2008). “The street of crocodiles and other stories”, Penguin Classics
“Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.”
“Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.”

Source : "Great Political Wit: laughing (almost) all the way to the White House". p. 89. Book by Bob Dole, 2000.
“Women are more sure of themselves today. They don't have to emulate the way men dress.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“All that we are looking for in life - all the happiness, contentment, and peace of mind - is right here in the present moment.”
“Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we who turn them into ghosts or demons. Some kinds of fruitless preoccupations with the past can create such simulacra, and they can exercise power, like those heroes at Troy fighting for a phantom Helen.”

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