"The hard thing when you get old is to keep your horizons open. The first part of your life everything is in front of you, all your potential and promise. But over the years, you make decisions; you carve yourself into a given shape. Then the challenge is to keep discovering the green growing edge."

-- Howard Thurman

#Years Quotes #Decision Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“In the case of the Catholic Church, it's hard to understand how they so willfully sacrifice the children.”
“Chess is a contest between two men which lends itself particularly to the conflicts surrounding aggression.”
“No one ever talks about the good in me; they just say that I'm spoiled.”
“The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.”
“We are not the healers, we are not the reconcilers, we are not the givers of life. We are sinful, broken, vulnerable people who need as much care as anyone we care for.”
“Because we are limited in our knowledge, even the sanest of us are slightly insane. Our limitations are a kind of madness, and we can only choose to deny we are mad, and so descend into a dark spiral of total insanity, or accept we are mad and embark on a quest to regain our true and wholesome sanity”

Source : Dwight Longenecker (2014). “The Romance of Religion: Fighting for Goodness, Truth, and Beauty”, p.5, Thomas Nelson
“If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so.”
“I've actually done a lot of comedy.”

Source : "Q&A: Natalie Zea of The Following". Interview with Matt Goulet, www.esquire.com. January 23, 2013.

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