"In stillness, we find our peace. Knowing peace at home, we bring peace into the world."

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Katrina Kenison

#Home Quotes #Knowing Quotes #World Quotes

“If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.”
“Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences, to the exclusion of unexceptionable testimony, must be deemed as absurd as that of deducing the history of ancient Rome solely from the medals or other monuments of antiquity it still exhibits, or the scattered ruins of its empire, to the exclusion of a Livy, a Sallust, or a Tacitus.”

Source : Richard Kirwan (1799). “Geological essays”, p.5
“But, as environment minister, I am very interested in a thriving German automobile industry, because I can only pay for the rising costs of environmental protection at home and abroad if there are people in Germany with jobs and who pay taxes.”
“Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.”

Source : Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
“I'm on a lot of nonprofit boards, but if I didn't enjoy it I wouldn't do it. I haven't yet done anything that's transformational in philanthropy. But I hope at some point to target two or three causes or organizations and really make transformational gifts.”
“LeBron james came, and he gets $10 million a year. There was no stigma or blemish, like you have with one-and-done. Now people say, "He's not a student, he's an athlete." Well, of course he's not a student! He's here for one year and he told you he's here for one year, and the school took him with open arms.”
“There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person's life. People changed slowly, over time. You didn't take on step, then find yourself in a completely new location. You first took a little step off a path to avoid some rocks. For a while, you walked alongside the path, but then you wandered out a little way to step on softer soil. Then you stopped paying attention as you drifted farther and farther away. Finally, you found yourself in the wrong city, wondering why the signs on the roadway hadn't led you better.”

Source : Brandon Sanderson (2016). “Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection”, p.75, Macmillan
“None of us find yoga. We are not that smart. Yoga finds us. We are taken up by it. It is nothing more than pure grace. We donâ€™t make this happen. We are the very fortunate recipients of this divine largesse.”

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