"Only when we have enough mental stress to force us to see our own bankruptcy of power, do we trust in God, and only when we trust in God can we make a contribution which will not collapse."

-- Kenneth Lee Pike

#Stress Quotes #Trust In God Quotes #Enough Quotes

“It took us most of the morning to put together the letter she sent to the Frontier Management Department, and I learned a lot about how to be frigidly polite and still leave somebody feeling like they'd been spanked.”

Source : Patricia C. Wrede (2012). “The Far West”, p.24, Scholastic Inc.
“Your mind has enormous hidden dimensions. Open yourselves completely to whatever reactions and emotions the world evokes from time to time. Accept them all without any reservation or resentment. By assimilating everything and all, your mind grows deeper, stabler and more enriched.”
“by then I'd figured out the gift of failure, which is that it breaks through all that held breath and isometric tension about needing to look good: it's the gift of feeling floppier.”
“When the purpose of the appointment to ,cohabit with the widow bas been attained in accordance with the law, those two shall behave towards each other like a father and a daughter in law.”
“Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.”
“A wife who lets herself go and is not sexually available to her husband in the ways that the Song of Songs is so frank about is not responsible for her husband's sin, but she may not be helping him either.”
“Zappos is a customer service company that just happens to sell shoes.”
“I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.”

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