"I don't just want a piece of you and a piece of your life. Even if you were able, which you are not, to give me the biggest piece, that is not what I want. I want all of you and all of every part of you and your day."

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Source : "The Shack". Book by William P. Young, 2007.

William P. Young

#Giving Quotes #Want Quotes #Able Quotes

“Surfing is an individual expression of one's own worth and one's own ability to participate directly with nature. And what makes it really enjoyable to me is that every wave is different... there's a special, non-repetitive pleasure in it that never gets boring.”
“Well, it seems all the fish in the rivers are dying. Could this be an act of cod?”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I am not a pessimist. Just a well informed optimist.”
“The heart of God through his creation stirs, We thrill to feel it, trembling as the flowers That die to live again, his messengers, To keep faith firm in these sad souls of ours. The waves of Time may devastate our lives, The frosts of age may check our failing breath, They shall not touch the spirit that survives Triumphant over doubt and pain and death.”

Source : Celia Thaxter (1872). “Poems”, p.31
“The first [quality] to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without the interposition of anything of oneself. It sounds simple but only the very greatest doctors ever fully attain it. ... The second thing to be striven for is intuition. This sounds an impossibility, for who can control that small quiet monitor? But intuition is only interference from experience stored and not actively recalled. ... The last aptitude I shall mention that must be attained by the good physician is that of handling the sick man's mind.”
“The sound is very much always in my head, I have to get the sound out of my head onto the recording.”
“Chinese restaurants have long been a weekly or monthly ritual for many Americans.”
“The photograph is kind of a proof - a proof that I actually met these people, that they actually have lives, and that they're worth considering.”

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