"La solitude reÂ tablit aussi bien les harmonies du corps que celles de l'a"Â me. Solitude restores the harmonies of the body no less than those of the soul."

-- Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

#Soul Quotes #Solitude Quotes #Body Quotes

“I was neat, clean, shaved and sober and I didn't care who knew it.”
“A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple expedient of collecting and destroying all the beggars in Venezuela an end was put to leprosy in that country.”
“Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.”

Source : "Justice For Sale". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. February 19, 2010.
“this is what I know about courage: You don't have to think about courage to have it. You don't have to feel courageous to be courageous. You don't sit down and say you're going to be courageous. At the moment of action, you don't see it as a courageous act. Courage is the most hidden thing from your eye or mind until after it's done. There's some inner something that tells you what's right. You know you have to do it to survive as a human being. You have no choice.”

Source : Unita Blackwell, JoAnne Prichard Morris (2006). “Barefootin': Life Lessons from the Road to Freedom”, Crown
“Jesus Christ opened heaven's door for us by His death on the cross.”
“Failure is relative. Life is adventure. Everything has beauty.”
“A witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of argument.”

Source : Chauncey Mitchell DePew (2005). “My Memories of Eighty Years”, p.318, Cosimo, Inc.
“No one in this body wants to see terrorism and the rule of force prevail in Iraq. Some on the other side say otherwise, but I believe they know better.”

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