"Papa sat down at the table and poured his tea from the china tea set with pink flowers on the edges. I waited for him to ask Jaja and me to take a sip, as he always did. A love sip, he called it, because you shared the little things you loved with the people you love."

-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#Flower Quotes #People Quotes #Tea Quotes

“Yes, we could talk to you for days on end about all the bad first dates. Those are stories. Funny stories. Awkward stories. Stories we love to share, because by sharing them, we get something out of the hour or two we wasted on the wrong person. But that's all bad first dates are: short stories. Good first dates are more than short stories. They are first chapters. On a good first date, everything is springtime. And when a good first date becomes a relationship, the springtime lingers. Even after it's over, there can be springtime.”
“Some intelligence officers filed reports saying that this is a dangerous group, but at one level it was not forwarded, it was just ignored,”
“The things are mighty few on earth that wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth, we've got to work to gain.”
“And maybe thatâ€™s was her biggest crime of all. Making him fall in love with her.”
“I'm just who I am. I don't try to change myself for other people.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means.”

Source : Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.17, Multnomah
“I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“All of our children have so much potential. All of our children deserve a chance at life.”

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