"Oak trees come out of acorns, no matter how unlikely that seems. An acorn is just a tree's way back into the ground. For another try. Another trip through. One life for another."

-- Shirley Ann Grau

#Tree Quotes #Trying Quotes #Matter Quotes

“I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently.”

Source : Interview with Jose Arroyo, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2002.
“And we find at the end of a perfect day, The soul of a friend we've made.”

Source : Mrs. Carrie Jacobs Bond (1940). “The End-of-the-road”
“I'm very open to the up-and-comers.”
“My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.”
“Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.”
“Save me from trendy religion that makes cheap clichÃ©s out of timeless truths.”

Source : Song: Save Me, Album: Rich Mullins
“The key to good listening isn't technique, it's desire. Until we truly want to understand the other person, we'll never listen well.”
“You have to know yourself, and that once you know yourself, then you cannot be bound by - because sometimes we are bound by other people's thoughts, because we are not sure about ourselves. But once you know yourself... I guess it is really an expression of the biblical statements that the truth will make you free! When you know, then you are free, your mind is free.”

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