"Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed."

-- Edward Abbey

#Life Quotes #Waste Quotes #Speed Quotes

“How many things would be different in everyoneâ€™s surroundings if we hadnâ€™t lived? How a good word many have encouraged some fellow and did something to him that he did it differently and better than he would otherwise. And through him somebody else was saved. How much we contribute to each other, how powerful we each are-and donâ€™t know it.”
“I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.”
“I am pro-life and I believe that marriage should only be between and man and a woman.”
“Do you know where Jason is?â€ she asked Dmitri when they exited the morgue. Dmitri pressed the car remote to unlock the flame red Ferrari parked in the employees-only lot. â€œTired of your Bluebell already?â€ A tendril of champagne circled around her senses, cut with something far harder. Never had she felt that harsh edge in Dmitriâ€™s scent. She pitied the woman he took to his bed today. â€œYeah, thatâ€™s it. Iâ€™m building a harem.”
“I've always slightly regretted not taking up Chicago.”
“In those who rest on their unshakable faith, pharisaism and fanaticism are the unmistakable symptoms of doubt which has been repressed. Doubt is not overcome by repression but by courage. Courage does not deny that there is doubt, but it takes the doubt into itself as an expression of its own finitude and affirms the content of an ultimate concern. Courage does not need the safety of an unquestionable conviction. It includes the risk without which no creative life is possible.”

Source : Paul Tillich (1958). “Dynamics of faith”
“Every foundation stone that is laid for a Temple, and every Temple completed according to the order the Lord has revealed for his holy Priesthood, lessens the power of Satan on the earth, and increases the power of God and Godliness.”
“Shout praise and whisper criticism.”

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