"There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living at close quarters with the very vice which he himself has been most outspoken in condemning -- without altogether recognizing it beneath the disguise of ambiguous behavior which it assumes in his presence."

-- Marcel Proust

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“I learned early in life not to judge others. We outcasts are very happy and content to leave that job to our social superiors.”
“They who sow courtesy reap friendship, and they who plant kindness gather love.”
“I love saying "Booyakasha!" I keep finding new ways to say it. I love saying "Booyakasha." It means love will prevail.”

Source : Source: www.wired.com
“Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move, And when this dust falls to the urn In that state I came, return.”

Source : 'The Retreat' l.29 from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)
“In a portrait, Iâ€™m looking for the silence in somebody.”
“The first step in this process of mindfulness is radical self-acceptance .”
“For every laugh, there should be a tear.”
“It now seems to me that the findings of more than fifty years of DNA research have provided materials for a new and enormously powerful argument to design.”

Source : Gary R. Habermas, Antony Flew, David J. Baggett (2009). “Did the Resurrection Happen?: A Conversation with Gary Habermas and Antony Flew”, p.75, InterVarsity Press

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