"I was most confusedly in love. ... Even though I resolved not to think of him, his face would keep appearing between me and a book I tried to read, or his voice would suddenly sound instead of the words I tried to write on a page. ... I found love annoying and uncomfortable, like fetters, until I got used to it."

-- Nora Waln

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Repentance keeps sin from condemning us because Jesus died and scorned the shame.”
“This lie of political correctness is bringing this country down. You just want to break through it all.”
“Itâ€™s difficult to find a person who can accept the truth consistently and more when it is related to him only and thatâ€™s what keeps the difference between the real talk and the negative talk very marginal.”
“Conscience is the still small voice that has been trying since the infancy of our species to tell us that we are evolutionarily, emotionally, and spiritually One, and that if we seek peace and happiness, we must behave that way.”

Source : Martha Stout, Ph.D. (2005). “The Sociopath Next Door”, p.216, Harmony
“The biggest challenge is probably some of the physicality. Some stuff you would never want to experience, in real life, but it's still such an adventure that it's worth all the scrapes and bruises and mud between the toes.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Man has used human rhythmic movement as raw material out of which to create works of art, as the composer of music uses sound, the sculptor uses stone and wood, the painter his pigments, and the writer - words.”
“But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.”
“God is not a person; God is manifestation itself. We think that God is a superhuman person, but God is not a person. He is not a subject. We can never experience God in a subject/object experience. God is what makes a subject/object experience possible. We can never see God or experience God as separate from ourselves. God is a being but there is no division.”

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