"We must not let ourselves fall into the vortex of pessimism. Faith can move mountains!"

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Pope Francis

#Moving Quotes #Fall Quotes #Mountain Quotes

“Success is not measured by what you do compared to what others do, it is measured by what you do with the ability God gave you.”
“The past has been given to us. The future must be built, as others have built our past.”

Source : Gladys Hasty Carroll (1957). “Sing Out the Glory”
“It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.”

Source : "Duh! The Stupid History of the Human Race". Book by Bob Fenster, September 2000.
“history records the large events or the general condition of society, but only an individual can put down the way of life in a small town ...”
“A day will come when beings, now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon Earth as a footstool and laugh, and reach out their hands amidst the stars.”
“America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God. Start thinking and pretty soon you get ideas, and then you get idealism, and the next thing you know you've got ideology, with millions dead in concentration camps and gulags.”
“Literature for me… tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been created by stories, e.g., the Jews killed Jesus.) I follow Sartre that the freedom the author claims for herself must be shared with the reader. So that would mean that literature is stories that put themselves at the disposal of readers who want to heal themselves. Their healing power lies in their honesty, the freshness of their vision, the new and unexpected things they show, the increase in power and responsibility they give the reader.”
“You will never have this day with your children again. Tomorrow they will be a little bigger then they are today. This day is a gift. Breathe and notice. Smell and touch them; study their faces and little feet and pay attention. Relish the charms of the present. Enjoy today mama. It will be over before you know it.”

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