"I am very happy that he [Pope Fransis] did clarify this [marriage defenition], because the other situations can be partnership, can be relations, but certainly not marriage."

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Source : Source: zenit.org

Christoph Schonborn

#Pope Quotes #Partnership Quotes #Relation Quotes

“There comes a time when the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping. At that moment, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable. Slowly, the realization emerges that the choice to continue what you have been doing is the choice to live in discomfort, and the choice to stop what you have been doing is the choice to breathe deeply and freely again. Once that realization has emerged, you can either honor it or ignore it, but you cannot forget it. What has become known can not become unknown again.”

Source : Gary Zukav (2012). “Soul to Soul: Communications From the Heart”, p.42, Simon and Schuster
“I was arrested for lip-syncing karaoke.”
“In assembling this group of portraits of women, I'm aware that I'm treading on dangerous ground. When I was in college, I learned to be distrustful of men's depictions of women. I remember seeing Garry Winogrand's book Women Are Beautiful in the school library and being shocked that it hadn't been defaced for its blatant objectification of women. But looking back, maybe I was too harsh. Whether one photographs men or women, it is always a form of objectification. Whatever you say about Winogrand, his depiction was honest.”
“My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.”
“That's always disappointing when you find a good story and you realize the person has died, because then it's difficult to report.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I don't believe you really know God if you do not recognize His sense of humor.”
“America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.”
“That's so her. You know, torn between Big Ideas and a party. She's always been that way.”

Source : FaceBook post by Claire Messud from Jan 20, 2013

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