"And when that crop grew, and was harvested, no man had crumbled a hot clod in his fingers and let the earth sift past his fingertips. No man had touched the seed, or lusted for the growth. Men ate what they had not raised, had no connection with the bread. The land bore under iron, and under iron gradually died; for it was not loved or hated, it had no prayers or curses."

-- John Steinbeck

#Prayer Quotes #Past Quotes #Men Quotes

“Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.”
“All can hear that still small voice within. Try it. Be still and know that the I AM within you is God, the Beloved. Listen... then live by it.”
“I met some people in college and I kept cracking away until someone pointed me in the right direction.”
“without music he felt aimless and adrift.”
“Sometimes you have to experience the bad, so that you can learn to appreciate the good things that enter your life.”
“[T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”
“A sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is a question of the subtlest possible adjustments, a process of intuition to which exaggeration and force are fatal.”

Source : Rachel Cusk (2015). “Outline: A Novel”, p.21, Macmillan
“We realized that YouTube is a rocket ship and that this is an incredibly big space. I started agitating for it. I was the most passionate voice for acquiring YouTube: 'The price tag seems really high, but it is going to be worth it.”

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