"What will happen can't be stopped. Aim for Grace."

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Source : Ann Beattie (2011). “Burning House”, p.23, Vintage

Ann Beattie

#Grace Quotes #Aim Quotes

“If we're talking about healthcare lets talk about a healthy diet. If there is anything better in the world in dealing with a healthcare problem it's prevention! We CAN afford prevention!”
“There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering.”
“What they say about footballers being ignorant is rubbish. I spoke to a couple yesterday and they are quite intelligent.”
“The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I'm out there on the basketball court.”
“Rather than working to the exclusion of everything else in order to flood our bank accounts in the hope that we can eventually buy back what we have missed along the way, we need to live life fully now with a sense of its fragility.”

Source : Randy Komisar, Kent L. Lineback (2001). “The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living”, p.13, Harvard Business Press
“But only agony, and that has ending; And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.”
“No one can say Christianity has failed. It has never been tried.”
“Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fullness of his nature, without also knowing God.”

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