"Praised be the Lord, who has redeemed me from myself."

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Teresa of Avila

#Humility Quotes #Lord Quotes

“I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster.”
“I had a toothache during the first game. In the second game I had a headache. In the third game it was an attack of rheumatism. In the fourth game, I wasn't feeling well. And in the fifth game? Well, must one have to win every game?”
“It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.”

Source : Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.324, Transaction Publishers
“My mother's an artist. My father was an artist and so I assumed that was normal growing up in art and the art world and spending our time around the world seeing art, experiencing things. It was great.”

Source : "Conversations with Michael Eisner", www.nbcnews.com. March 28, 2006.
“Our efforts to remove hatred and indifference from the world begin by trying to remove them from our own mind.”
“Anyway, I believe you don't fix the inside by putting something on the outside.”
“You donâ€™t have a soul, so you canâ€™t be baptized. All animals are like that. I think itâ€™s unfair and sometimes I donâ€™t believe it. After all, what would heaven be without birds or dogs or horses? And what about trees and flowers? They donâ€™t have souls either. Does that mean heaven looks like a cement parking lot? I suppose this is what the nuns call a theological problem.”
“I can't afford to spend my time with anyone - there's only enough left for myself”

Source : Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.292, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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