"Many priests say that retirement is more identified with freedom from meetings, budgets, personnel conflicts, and "dealing with the Chancery." Even as I struggled not to take that last point too personally, I was reminded that I have heard the same sentiment from many of my bishop friends as well!"

-- Wilton Daniel Gregory

#Retirement Quotes #Conflict Quotes #Sentiments Quotes

“Now you are in the true world, and a great deal more is required of you. Here you must befriend real wolves, and lure real birds down from the sky. Here you must endure real people around you, and we are not uniformly kind; we are damaged and impulsive, each in our own way. It is harder. It is not safe. But it is what you were born to.”

Source : Margo Lanagan (2009). “Tender Morsels”, p.400, Random House
“Let's start with where you are,' he said. 'You're here.' Taking her hand, he pressed it to his chest above his heart.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jill Shalvis from Jul 29, 2013
“You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you do, but because you have no privacy.”
“Work is honorable. It is good therapy for most problems. It is the antidote for worry. It is the equalizer for deficiency of native endowment. Work makes it possible for the average to approach genius. What we may lack in aptitude, we can make up for in performance. . . .”
“No one can hate petitions worse than I, and no one has less faith in them than I. But for my champion I am willing to try any means that invades no other's right, even though I have little hope in it.”
“I started out singing in high school in the choir and in a garage band.”
“To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.”
“I've been feeling everything. From hate to love. From love to lust. From lust to truth. I guess that's how I know you.”

Source : Song: Kiss Me, Album: Plus, 2011

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