"Lately, I'd been feeling like I was standing outside watching everything and everybody. Wishing I could take the part of me that was over there and the part of me that was over here and push them togetherâ€”make myself into one whole person like everybody else."

-- Jacqueline Woodson

#Feelings Quotes #Wish Quotes #Together Quotes

“I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love.”
“I'm planning to give up worrying. I want to, but I'm worried I won't be able to.”

Source : Delia Ephron (2013). “Sister Mother Husband Dog (Etc.)”, p.69, Simon and Schuster
“We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.”
“We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.”
“The bisy larke, messager of day.”
“On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On the city has gathered the idea of an achieved centre of learning, communication, light. Powerful hostile associations have also developed: on the city as a place of noise, worldliness and ambition; on the country as a place of backwardness, ignorance, limitation. A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.”

Source : Raymond Williams (1975). “The Country and the City”, p.1, Oxford University Press, USA
“I am an atheist, I have no religious beliefs. And obviously I donâ€™t believe in spirituality of some kind.”
“Clearly, what God wants above all is our will which we received as a free gift from God in creation and possess as though our own. When a man trains himself to acts of virtue, it is with the help of grace from God from whom all good things come that he does this. The will is what man has as his unique possession”

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