"We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation."

-- Abraham Verghese

#Broken Quotes #Tasks Quotes #Generations Quotes

“One day I woke up and discovered that I was in love with tripe.”
“Heaven is not as narrowly literal-minded as hell.”
“Faith is the enemy of discovery.”
“{While meditating} I sit quietly and rest in the nature of mind; I don't question or doubt whether I am in the "correct" state or not. There is no effort, only rich understanding, wakefulness, and unshakable certainty. When I am in the nature of mind, the ordinary mind is no longer there. There is no need to sustain or confirm a sense of being: I simply am.”
“To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.”
“I don't censor myself, but I don't want to force my sick-skewed version of the world, either.”
“Prayer is as necessary as the air, as the blood in our bodies, as anything to keep us alive-to keep us alive to the grace of God.”
“There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, to live, to dieâ€”that takes courage enough in itself, and more than enough. We are all brave men and we are all afraid, and what the world calls a brave man, he too is brave and afraid like the all rest of us. Only he is brave for five minutes longer.”

Source : ALISTAIR MACLEAN (1956). “THE GUNS OF NAVARONE”

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