"Only when we can accept God as he is can we give up the desire for spiritual experiences that we can feel."

-- Thomas Keating

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“Working hard is important. But there is something that matters even more, believing in yourself.”

Source : "Fictional character: Harry Potter". "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", en.wikiquote.org. 2007.
“Callan took a deep breath. â€œI never expected you.â€ He shook his head with an edge of amusement. â€œYou are a dangerous woman, Merinus Tyler.â€ â€œNaw, just a determined woman.â€ She grinned against his shoulder. â€œI know a good thing when I see it jacking off.”
“A United States collapse would be much different than a Greece collapse. Greece can collapse, and there's a ripple. We collapse, and the world feels it.”
“We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs.”
“As there is no pleasure in military life for a soldier who fears death, so there is no independence in civil existence for the man who has an overpowering dread of solitude.”
“What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them”
“Currently, most States do not recognize within their borders concealed carry permits issued in other States.”
“As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.”

Source : Elizabeth Kostova (2008). “The Historian”, Little, Brown

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