"silence was the first prayer I learned to trust ..."

-- Patricia Hampl

#Prayer Quotes #Silence Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a hundred, Your life will be death to the very core.”

Source : Khushwant Singh (1996). “The collected novels: Train to Pakistan, I shall not hear the nightingale, Delhi”
“When you get involved romantically with someone, sometimes you end up overlooking things that you could help people with better, as a friend.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“We know what willpower is, but by some misguided conception, many of us believe we have to be a certain type of person, strong, determined, extroverted, to be able to be willful, to exercise willpower. Not so. We all have it and just don't know how to use it.”
“According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes, I'm looking at God. Whenever I'm listening to something, I'm listening to God.”
“I believe in commitment. I believe in being open and trusting each other and respecting each other completely.”

Source : "Enrique Iglesias, Anna Kournikova Don’t Plan To Marry". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2012.
“Does sound have rhythm? Does it rise and fall like the ocean? Does sound come and go like wind?”
“I would love to be able to pursue music as a career but honestly, I'm just not good enough.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“You don't have to do all that shakin' and bakin' to get to the goal and make a shot.”

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