"When the beer is gone, so are they -- flexing their cars on up the boulevard."

-- Amy Hempel

#Beer Quotes #Car Quotes #Gone Quotes

“You treat people with dignity and respect and they give it right back to you.”
“For Jesus, who lived so lightly on this earth, He didnâ€™t even have a place to lay His head. I want so deeply to be like You.”

Source : Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.5, B&H Publishing Group
“You have to live your story before being able to write your story.”
“Images embrace us: they open up to us and close themselves to us in so far as they conjure up in us something that we could call an interior experience.”
“One of the best rules anybody can learn about investing is to do nothing, absolutely nothing, unless there is something to do. Most people â€“ not that Iâ€™m better than most people â€“ always have to be playing; they always have to be doing something. They make a big play and say, â€œBoy, am I smart, I just tripled my money.â€ Then they rush out and have to do something else with that money. They canâ€™t just sit there and wait for something new to develop”
“Let the glossy spreads have their heart-stopping, head-turning kind of beauty. Give me the heart-filling beauty instead. Jolie laide, that's what I would choose. Flawed, we're truly interesting, truly memorable, and yes, truly beautiful.”
“The world is a violent child none of us will get to see grow up.”

Source : Vanessa Veselka (2011). “Zazen”, p.257, Red Lemonade
“Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In the end, though, we are all proclaiming the same thing. That life has meaning. That we are grateful for the power that created us.”

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