"When we no longer pray, no longer listen to the voice of love that speaks to us in the moment, our lives become absurd lives in which we are thrown back and forth between the past and the future. If we could just be, for a few minutes each day, fully where we are, we would indeed discover that we are not alone and that the One who is with us wants only one thing: to give us love"

-- Henri Nouwen

#Past Quotes #Voice Quotes #Giving Quotes

“I think songs and visuals are so evocative of each other.”

Source : "Listen Up: Exitmusic" by Rebecca Willa Davis, www.elle.com. May 22, 2012.
“I made 22 million in 14 years... with taxes, and travel and everything else, it gets blown out the window... which is why I still need to work.”
“Did you hear?" he asked. "They found another body around nine this morning. It's the Ripper, definitely." "Good morning," I replied. "Morning. Listen to this. The second victim...”

Source : Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.45, Penguin
“I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars.”
“It is true that as you have children, there are a good many months when you don't want to be working full-time. I agree that that's an issue.”
“best way to deal with fear is to face the nightmare!”
“The property qualifications for federal office that the framers of the Constitution expressly chose to exclude for demonstrating an unseemly "veneration of wealth " are now de facto in force and higher than the Founding Fathers could have imagined.”
“They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall.”

Source : "In Rufinum". Book I. 22,

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