"When I was going blind, I didn't turn to God. It didn't seem to me then - and it doesn't seem to me now - that those items were His concern. Early on, I figured I better begin to learn how to count on myself, instead of counting on supernatural forces."

-- Ray Charles

#Prayer Quotes #Blind Quotes #Counting Quotes

“Since I got married my wife doesn't really let me wear anything that I used to because she says I have no taste at all.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There is some comfort in killing that which has hurt you, but it is cold comfort. It'll destroy things inside of you that the original pain wouldn't have harmed. Sometimes it's not a question of whether a piece of your soul is going to go missing, only which piece it's going to be.”

Source : Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Obsidian Butterfly: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.724, Penguin
“If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.”
“Viewers figure, 'Uncle Willard doesn't know any more about the weather than I do.' They're right.”
“Abraham," he said. "I'm pleased to see you alive, old friend." "And I to see you dead.”
“Prayers are prophecies. They are the best predictors of your spiritual future. Who you become is determined by how you pray. Ultimately, the transcript of your prayers becomes the script of your life.”
“Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their limited experience of individuals indiscriminately to whole classes.”

Source : Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1822). “Works”, p.33
“Heaven is to be at peace with things.”

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