"Language is a finding-place not a hiding place."

-- Jeanette Winterson

#Language Quotes #Hiding Quotes #Hiding Place Quotes

“And one thing the void certainly can teach us is how to wait, how to become truly patient, and how to let go of superfluous intellectual baggage - all of which is a good lesson for hyper-agitated multi-tasking goal-focussed contemporary human beings.”

Source : "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.
“The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted.”
“A society that places a low value on its mothers and the process of birth will suffer an array of negative repercussions for doing so. Good beginnings make a positive difference in the world, so it is worth our while to provide the best possible care for mothers and babies throughout this extraordinarily influential part of life.”

Source : Ina May Gaskin (2011). “Birth Matters: How What We Don't Know About Nature, Bodies, and Surgery Can Hurt Us”, p.1, Seven Stories Press
“Nothing is beautiful and true.”
“I don't cook, 'cause I don't know how to cook.”
“Jesus did not command us to pray for the sick.He commanded us to heal them.”

Source : Bill Johnson, Randy Clark (2011). “The Essential Guide to Healing”, p.51, Chosen Books
“God is God, He is not tame and domesticated like we sometimes (try to) make Him.”
“In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.”

Source : Walter Bagehot (1986). “The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot: Miscellany”

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