"My father taught that the only helping hand you're ever going to be able to rely on is the one at the end of your sleeve."

-- J. C. Watts

#Wisdom Quotes #Father Quotes #Hands Quotes

“The first job I got when I was in high school was working for a department store in New York. I worked in the stockroom. That's when I learned that I couldn't work for anyone else, because I was spoken to in a way that I wasn't spoken to at home.”

Source : Source: www.ebony.com
“Life isn't what you think it is. It's like water, and the young let it trickle away between their fingers without even noticing. Cup your hands, keep it safe. Life eventually becomes something else, something hard, something simple, something you can hold in your hand and nibble on contentedly as you sit in the sun.”
“It was not surprising ....that [my father] should seldom have long seasons of agonizing prayer such as some have experienced, for His closeness to God was not limited to special seasons, but was a continuous and uninterrupted service.”
“Gratitude is a sacred space where you allow and know that a force greater than your ego is always at work and always available.”
“We overcome the accuser of our brothers and sisters, we overcome our consciences, we overcome our bad tempers, we overcome our defeats, we overcome our lusts, we overcome our fears, we overcome our pettiness on the basis of the blood of the Lamb.”
“I have heard all kinds of stories about telling employers about MS and I really don't know what the answer is. I am a private person, but I have found support by talking to fellow MSrs in the community.”

Source : "Multiple Sclerosis". Online chat, www.washingtonpost.com. June 2, 2004.
“It hurts, as if someone took a part of me, tore it out, mercilessly stomped all over and threw it out.”

Source : "Model's Web rants pined for love" by Veronika Belenkaya and Brian Harmon, www.nydailynews.com. June 29, 2008.
“My opponents will do anything they can to distract from their own flawed candidate. Bob Menendez is under federal criminal investigation. As far as I know, he is the only candidate for Senate under federal criminal investigation.”

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