"While it may be true in some instances that our promised blessings will be fulfilled only in the eternities, it is also true that as we search, pray, and believe, we will often recognize things working together for our good in this life."

-- Susan W. Tanner

#Believe Quotes #Blessing Quotes #Together Quotes

“... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.”
“We had just played a sold-out show and it had been a fun night when we heard the news. It brought everything back to reality. He was a brilliant guy. He was an aerospace engineer and an entrepreneur. We were just starting to write new songs two weeks after he died. We were still grieving. So that was naturally a big subject matter for the album.”
“A lot of acting is private time.”
“Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.”
“It doesn't make any difference if you are in favor of capital punishment or if you are opposed to capital punishment. The fact of the matter is that as a viable penalty, capital punishment does not work at this time and has not worked in the State of Florida for many, many years.”
“Only paper flowers are afraid of the rain.”
“The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handle”
“Kindness, it turns out, is hard - it starts out all rainbows and puppy dogs, and expands to include . . . well, EVERYTHING.”

Source : George Saunders (2014). “Congratulations, by the way: Some Thoughts on Kindness”, p.38, A&C Black

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