"Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones."

-- Barack Obama

#Inspirational Quotes #Violence Quotes #Complicated Quotes

“In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.”

Source : Speech at Kettering, 3 July 1938, in The Times 4 July 1938
“The body of Christ is a multicultural citizenry of an otherworldly kingdom.”
“We have probed the earth, excavated it, burned it, ripped things from it, buried things in it.... That does not fit my definition of a good tenant. If we were here on a month-to-month basis, we would have been evicted long ago.”
“If you love what you do, it won't be work.”
“There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters.”
“If dead things love, if earth and water distinguish friends from enemies, I should like to possess their love. I should like the green earth not to feel my step as a heavy burden. I should like her to forgive that she for my sake is wounded by plough and harrow, and willingly to open for my dead body.”

Source : Selma Lagerlöf (1914). “The Story of Gösta Berling”
“Of the small gifts of heaven, / It seems to me a more than equal share / At birth was given / To girls with curly hair.”
“I worked with the world's greatest talents and then went home to the world's greatest woman. It was, and is, a great life.”

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