"Life is like fording a river, stepping from one slippery stone to another, and you must rejoice every time you don't lose your balance, and learn to laugh at all the times you do."

-- Merle Shain

#Rivers Quotes #Laughing Quotes #Life Is Like Quotes

“I wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted.”

Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.27, Thomas Nelson Inc
“Hey, look at this guy Kenny G. with his thing, walking up and down the aisles of the concert hall and running off the stage and playing the same time. It's old hat!”
“Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought.”
“When the Jews leave Russia, Communism will collapse there. World Jewry is today relocating to America. Thus the real threat of Communism in America has just begun.”
“Salvation for our educational ills... will have to come from within an educational community willing to say we have met the enemy and it is us.”
“You cannot say that you are happy when you don't win.”
“Our problem is this: we usually discover him within some denominational or Christian ghetto. We meet him in a province and, having caught some little view, we paint him in smaller strokes. The Lion of Judah is reduced to something kittenish because our understanding cannot, at first, write larger definitions.”

Source : Calvin Miller (1984). “The Table of Inwardness”, Intervarsity Press
“Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.”

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