"We are like the watermelons. Each of us has a crusty external rind. A case that both protects us and keeps others out. The closer you get to the middle, that is to say - the closer you get to the heart - the sweeter we get."

-- Omid Safi

#Heart Quotes #Middle Quotes #Cases Quotes

“Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.”
“We actually have some gay people that work with us, and we have a lot of friends that are gay, too, and I know that this song has inspired them... I know that coming out was tough on their parents and on them and the whole entire family. For a long time, some of them didn't get to hear 'I love you' from their dads or be accepted in that way. ... It's helped a lot of our friends... We don't judge anybody's lives.”
“John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has produced.”
“If youâ€™re trying to prove your heart is in the right place, it isnâ€™t.”
“We must be willing to forgive without limit even as God forgives; otherwise we cannot be forgiven.”
“The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.”
“Love . . . is like nature, but in reverse; first it fruits, then it flowers, then it seems to wither, then it goes deep, deep down into its burrow, where no one sees it, where it is lost from sight, and ultimately people die with that secret buried inside their souls.”
“We are known in a depth of darkness through which we ourselves do not even dare to look. And at the same time, we are seen in a height of a fullness which surpasses our highest vision.”

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