"Self-awareness and healthy self-love go hand in hand. When we love what God has given us and share it with others naturally and without expectations for gratitude we are truly people who have spiritual self-confidence and compassion; and isn't that a great way to live?"

-- Robert J. Wicks

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“People in the rich countries who have done very well, who are at the top of the income pyramid, try to steamroll over the opposition of the middle without changing anything in social programs, or any redistribution. And they take their votes for a given. They have rich people that bankroll them. And the globalization would continue, but it would continue with permanent dissatisfaction among large segments of the people.”
“I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.”
“The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.”
“I think of color as being seen in and throughout, not solely on the surface.”
“Education has been given us from above for the purpose of bringing to the benighted the knowledge of the Saviour.”
“I walk to Oxford Street and climb on the number 8. It's freezing and it starts to rain and it's the ugliest bus I've ever seen, rattling down the ugliest streets, in the ugliest city, in the ugliest country, in the ugliest of all possible worlds.”

Source : David Thewlis (2011). “The Late Hector Kipling”, p.83, Pan Macmillan
“Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.”
“You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.”

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