"We all make mistakes, we all have fears, and we all have weaknesses. Behind all that is our essential self. When our essential self has made contact with another, the light is dazzling and would fill the universe. The challenge of enchantment is to remain faithful to that light, to believe in it when it is not so apparent. Then that light becomes an incandescent glow and it wraps itself around everything."

-- Marianne Williamson

#Mistake Quotes #Believe Quotes #Light Quotes

“There are but two types of men who desire war: those who havenâ€™t the slightest intention of fighting it themselves, and those who havenâ€™t the slightest idea what it is. â€¦ Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.”
“Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.”
“We do not doubt to assert, that air does not serve for the motion of the lungs, but rather to communicate something to the blood ... It is very likely that it is the fine nitrous particles, with which the air abounds, that are communicated to the blood through the lungs.”
“some kinds of beauty did not heal, but hollowed the pain even deeper.”

Source : Anne Perry (2005). “Angels in the Gloom: A Novel”, p.67, Ballantine Books
“Four years ago, I was thinkingâ€¦ no Olympics, who am I? Probably in â€™04, I was identified with gymnastics. I thought gymnastics was who I am and I have to be an Olympian and I have to make this team. Thatâ€™s probably why I was a little bit devastated when I didnâ€™t make it. You know, I was kinda lost. Now I realize that weâ€™re all magnificent, regardless of what we do or whatever career path we choose, you know, that career doesnâ€™t have to define us as a human being. Thereâ€™s so much more to being human than all of this.”
“Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but I've not lost the friendship. We talk all the time and that was what our connection was about. She has a wonderful mind and we just like a chat.”
“I live in the USSR, work actively and count naturally on the worker and peasant spectator. If I am not comprehensible to them I should be deported.”
“We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.”

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