"Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it"

-- Arthur Golden

#Life Is Like Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Odd Quotes

“The heart of a woman will never be found in the arms of a man.”

Source : Song: Rinse, Album: Be Not Nobody, 2002
“It's really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it separate and not use my music in movies, it's cool.”
“I don't want to be about the way I look - my body, my hair, my makeup, all those boring things.”
“Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.”

Source : Tahir Shah “In Search of King Solomon's Mines, Dyslexic edition”, Lulu.com
“The human being is not a fallen being in need of redemption but rather a forgetful being who must be reminded of God and his own nature.”

Source : Joseph E. B. Lumbard (2009). “Submission, Faith and Beauty: The Religion of Islam”, Fons Vitae
“The German system is way less fair than it is expected to be, and the difference is becoming bigger. The private system, with its privilege to pay doctors and hospitals better, is basically putting the whole system at jeopardy, because many first-class hospitals and first-class physicians are wasting their time on trivial cases of privately insured and are no longer accessible for the difficult cases from the public system, despite [the fact] that the hospitals and also the education of those professionals is paid for by public money.”

Source : "Frontline", www.pbs.org. October 25, 2007.
“Oh, my sweet summer child," Old Nan said quietly, "what do you know of fear? Fear is for the winter, my little lord, when the snows fall a hundred feet deep and the ice wind comes howling out of the north. Fear is for the long night, when the sun hides its face for years at a time, and little children are born and live and die all in darkness while the direwolves grow gaunt and hungry, and the white walkers move through the woods”
“Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas. He hears it from the very moment that you are seized with helplessness, and He becomes actively engaged at once in hearing and answering the prayer of your helplessness.”

Source : Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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