"A few doors away was the Baptist Church, and as I walked towards it I began to think that people didn't want me to share their church. As I walked through the Baptist door I was tense, waiting for that tap on the shoulderâ€¦but instead I was given a hymn book and welcomed into the church. I sat through the serviceâ€¦This up and down treatment wasn't doing my nerves much good."

-- Can Themba

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Hymns Quotes

“The man who speaks and writes about art should refrain from censuring or pontificating. He will thus avoid doing anything foolish, for in the presence of primordial depth all art is but dream and nature.”

Source : "Arp on Arp: poems, essays, memories". Book by Hans Arp, p. 327, 1958.
“I always perform live. I've even received a cortisone injection when I was losing my voice before a big gig so I could fulfill my obligation to the promoter. I felt it the days following after the gig in my throat, but it was nice to know I didn't let anyone down. The show must go on.”

Source : Source: www.tgforum.com
“When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.”
“Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.”

Source : Edmund Pendleton (1967). “The Letters and Papers of Edmund Pendleton, 1734-1803”
“I have a very open mind. I believe that there's a spirit world. I believe that there's a lot of stuff out there that we don't know about, don't want to understand, and sometimes we don't want to understand it.”
“Being in a group is a way to actually to speak up, and define yourself in the comfort, and the complexity of the group.”
“Your heart is pure, your soul is free. Be on your way, don't wait for me.”

Source : Song: Fly, Album: Falling Into You, 1996
“That night it did not rain as much in the sky as it did in his heart.”

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