"We cannot justify ourselves in living by that particular part of the word that appeals to us, the part that we desire to obey, but must be willing to. . . live by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God."

-- Albert E. Bowen

#Desire Quotes #Mouths Quotes #Appeals Quotes

“an autobiography held out the promise of hearing truths that only friends confess to one another but are knowledge you need to live.”
“In some countries Women's Day is a national holiday and men give women flowers. In America Women's Day falls on another holiday, Mardi Gras, where men give women beads in the respectful and post-feminist desire to see their naked boobies.”
“Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.”
“Being a mentor is something that's new for me but a role that I take very seriously.”
“Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.”

Source : G. Stanley Hall (2013). “Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)”, p.12, Read Books Ltd
“Age is just a number for me! A person is as young as he feels.”
“So one thing I want to say about life is don't be scared and don't hang back, and most of all, don't waste it.”

Source : Joan W. Blos (2013). “A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832”, p.3, Simon and Schuster
“The distinction between private and public undermines the unity of spiritual strength, draining the public of the transcendent energies while trivializing them because the merely private life provides no proper stage for their action.”

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