"Common aim is stronger than blood."

-- G. I. Gurdjieff

#Blood Quotes #Stronger Quotes #Common Quotes

“I've been moving a little to the music while I worked ...and then I realize I am actually dancing. It feels wonderful, though I can feel how stiff my muscles are, how rigidly I've been holding myself...Mostly I've been moving cautiously, numbly, steeled because I know, at any moment, I may be ambushed by overwhelming grief. You never know when it's coming, the word or gesture or bit of memory that dissolved you entirely...It happens every day at first, then not for a day or two, then there's a week when grief washes in every morning, every afternoon.”
“The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.”

Source : William Barclay (1999). “Good Tidings of Great Joy: The Birth of Jesus the Messiah”, p.36, Westminster John Knox Press
“There is no medicine to cure a fool!”
“Stock speculation is largely a matter of A trying to decide what B, C and D are likely to think-with B, C and D trying to do the same.”
“When you live with beautiful things you stimulate your mind, you enjoy life a little bit more.”
“I opposed the Suez war, I opposed the Falklands war. I opposed the Libyan bombing and I opposed the Gulf war and I never believed that any of those principled arguments lost a single vote - indeed, I think they gained support though that was not why you did it. What has been lacking in Labour politics over a long period is a principled stand”
“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
“Ask yourself this question CONSTANTLY: where can I add the most value to what matters most to me and the people who care about me?”

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