"There is perhaps no surer road to peace than the one that starts from little islands and oases of genuine kindness, islands and oases constantly growing in number and being continually joined together until eventually they ring the world."

-- Dominique Pire

#Kindness Quotes #Islands Quotes #Oasis Quotes

“Nothing is nicer than diving with your eyes open. Diving down as far as the shimmering legs of your mother and father who have just come back from swimming and now are wading to shore through the shallow water. Nothing more fun than to tickle them and to hear, muffled by the water, how they shriek because they know it will make their child happy.”

Source : Jenny Erpenbeck (2011). “Visitation”, p.62, Granta Books
“The future is going to be stranger and more various and more dynamic than anything people can imagine now. We will be extraordiarily tested. I wish us the best of luck!”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“We move through time like a man in a rowboat, looking back even as we move forward.”
“I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!”

Source : "Natalie Merchant: mother superior" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. July 08, 2010.
“I'm open to the gifts of the Spirit. The real healings are so beautiful I hate to see it blasphemed by fakes who merchandise the gifts. Bethel Church and HRock Church now charge thousands of dollars to teach the gifts of the Spirit in contrast to the Apostle Peter who rebuked Simon for offering money for it.”
“Nothing of any consequence happens unless people get behind an idea. It begins with an individual and they share the idea with more individuals-and eventually it becomes a movement.”
“I only really work when I want to.”
“Your future is not ahead of you, it's trapped within you”

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