"It isn't the kind of profession that you have that makes you flourish; it's what you are coming from, within, that makes you flourish. Then everything that you step into turns into your garden."

-- John de Ruiter

#Garden Quotes #Steps Quotes #Kind Quotes

“The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states.”
“Our two biggest rivals had adjusted their whole season to this one aim of beating us. Of course, it is a big compliment that they were so motivated to stop us but it was very tough to face two matches like that so close together. Suddenly three trophies are down to one.”

Source : Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2004.
“A universal style is one that knows how to embrace lovingly those not quite developed.”

Source : Witold Gombrowicz, Danuta Borchardt (2012). “Ferdydurke”, p.84, Yale University Press
“It is normal for me to wake and find myself writing in the dark... or to be out of my tomb, caught in an unearthly world, alive with the images that haunt me.”
“Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!”
“It becomes essential to choose one's path. Life consists in making these choices. One develops by choosing. It requires strength to become a child of God ...”

Source : Toyohiko Kagawa (1935). “Meditations on the cross”
“Ordinarily rivers run small at the beginning, grow broader and broader as they proceed, and become widest and deepest at the point, where they enter the sea. It is such rivers that the Christian's life is like. But the life of the mere worldly man is like those rivers in Southern Africa, which, proceeding from mountain freshets, are broad and deep at the beginning, and grow narrower and more shallow as they advance. They waster themselves by soaking into the sands, and at last they die out entirely. The farther they run the less there is of them.”
“No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.”

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