"God, make me a man with thick skin and a soft heart. Make me a man who is tough and tender. Make me tough so I can handle life. Make me tender so I can love people. God, make me a man."

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Source : Darrin Patrick (2010). “Church Planter: The Man, the Message, the Mission”, p.12, Crossway

Darrin Patrick

#Heart Quotes #Men Quotes #People Quotes

“They are the gateway for our modern esthetic development, the prophets of the new time. They are most of all, the primitives of the way they have begun; they have voiced most of all the imperative need of essential personalism, of direct expression of direct experience.”

Source : Marsden Hartley (2011). “Adventures in the Arts”, p.35, Hol Art Books
“An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.”
“A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don't know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population.”

Source : Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.
“A lot of the problems teenagers go through, it's better for them to go through them on their own. If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.”
“Even under the most difficult circumstances you can have creative flexibility.”
“If there's any lesson I've learned in the last five years, it's don't be so sure about what lies ahead. There are amazing doors that could open,”

Source : "An Early Halloween Fright for Wall St.: Elizabeth Warren for Treasury Secretary?" by Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, people.com. October 22, 2014.
“Reasons to be positive. The economic downturn could be the catalyst for positive change. It should be translated into the wake-up call we need for a major change in aspirations and lifestyles to save humanity from the ecological and economic disaster that would otherwise result from continuing on the high carbon and resource depleting path we have been pursuing”
“The reality of it, excuse me, is when you're in the public they already have a perception of you, ... And that can be a little awkward.”

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