"For there are three ways of performing an act of mercy: the merciful word, by forgiving and by comforting; secondly, if you can offer no word, then pray - that too is mercy; and thirdly, deeds of mercy. And when the Last Day comes, we shall be judged from this, and on this basis we shall receive the eternal verdict."

-- Mary Faustina Kowalska

#Forgiveness Quotes #Comforting Quotes #Forgiving Quotes

“I think parts of my soul have been saved by my writing, not in the sense of escaping death, but escaping the death of the moment, perhaps.”

Source : "A Conversation with Pattiann Rogers". Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.
“Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Al-Qaida, literally "the database", was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians.”

Source : "The struggle against terrorism cannot be won by military means" by Robin Cook, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2005.
“Success is like failure, It's how you perceive it, It's what you do with it, not how you achieve it.”
“It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.”
“If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended, then if you were really, really good at algebra you could write the formula for all the future; and although nobody can be so clever as to do it, the formula must exist just as if one could.”
“Everyone knows in the industry that when these great roles come up, every two years, there's a huge number of people up for them. I'm not one of those top five females that can personally finance any film.”

Source : "How I survived divorce, the tabloids and Jamie Theakston" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2001.
“I think for something like law or medicine you really have to love it and I didn't love it.”
“Loving your child also means respecting him as a person. Treat him with the same courtesy as would a friend.”

Source : Claudia Jones (1988). “Parents are Teachers, Too: Enriching Your Child's First Six Years”, Williamson Pub

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