"It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?"

-- Abraham Joshua Heschel

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“If the reader were so rash as to purchase any of Bela Bartok's compositions, he would find that they each and all consist of unmeaning bunches of notes, apparently representing the composer promenading the keyboard in his boots. Some can be played better with the elbows, others with the flat of the hand. None require fingers to perform or ears to listen too.”
“They could steam up windows with their kisses, but as soon as they started using their mouths for other thingsâ€”like talkingâ€”everything got so complicated.”

Source : Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.499, Delacorte Press
“I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.”
“Questions are often more effective than statements in moving others. Or to put it more appropriately, since the research shows that when the facts are on your side, questions are more persuasive than statements, don't you think you should be pitching more with questions?”
“Before I forget ...Beware the Ides of March.”
“Don't ever tell a story like it wasn't about you.”
“Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress”
“Total surrender to the will of God actually is sacrificing oneself as a burnt offering to God. The proof of this state is dying to oneself, - to one's own opinions, wishes and feelings or tastes, in order to live by Divine intellect, in conformity with the Divine will and in partaking of God. In the forefront of this endeavor is our Lord and Savior. He surrendered the whole of Himself to God the Father, and us in Himself, 'For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones' (Eph. 5:30). So let us hasten in His footsteps?”

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