"A man who prays without ceasing, if he achieves something, knows why he achieved it, and can take no pride in it... for he cannot attribute it to his own powers, but attributes all his achievements to God, always renders thanks to him and constantly calls upon him, trembling lest he be deprived of help."

-- Dorotheus of Gaza

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“Abuse of any kind thrives off secrecy. I felt like if I started talking about it, maybe other people would. I wanted to break the silence. Now I feel I'm in a much better place emotionally than I've ever been anytime in my life.”
“If I'm feeling something, I have a lot of different ways to express it, you know? I can write an article about it. I can write a screenplay about it. I can act in someone's thing.”
“If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.”
“One way or another we all work for our vice.”

Source : "Fictional character: Doc Erwin Riedenschneider". "The Asphalt Jungle", www.imdb.com. 1950.
“How many wars will it take us to learn that only the dead return?”
“I'm into a lot of Eastern philosophy. It's kind of like theosophy; it's about finding the relationships between all the great religions and focusing in on the good stuff.”
“Sometimes she wished for someone she could tell about her problems, just to be able to say, â€˜Iâ€™m in love with a man and I canâ€™t have him.â€™ But that would only lead to questions she couldnâ€™t answer, so she kept the secret and the pain inside, hoping someday she would no longer feel as if half of her were missing.”

Source : Abigail Reynolds (2010). “Man Who Loved Pride and Prejudice: A modern love story with a Jane Austen twist”, p.252, Sourcebooks, Inc.
“Each one of us is bound to make the little circle in which he or she lives better and happier. Bound to see that out of that small circle the widest good may flow.”

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