"By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!"

-- C. S. Lewis

#Wish Quotes #Gum Quotes #Enough Quotes

“Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.”

Source : Henry Latham Doherty (1923). “Principles and Ideas for Doherty Men: Papers, Addresses and Letters”
“I love you,â€ I said, causing his face to contort in pain. â€œIâ€™m not a man so I do not have a heart that loves as a human does. Iâ€™m an immortal god that dwells with supreme power because I hold the keys to Death. But you are my existence. I am yours.â€ Hot tears streamed down my face as I stared into the face of someone who comprehended an emotion much stronger than my weak, feeble words of love.”
“That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves. If we are directed from Washington (heads of an organization) when to sow and when to reap, we will soon want for bread.”
“One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.”
“May both of them [Saint John XXIII and Saint John Paul II] teach us not to be scandalized by the wounds of Christ and to enter ever more deeply into the mystery of divine mercy, which always hopes and always forgives, because it always loves.”
“There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working on things that matter.”
“True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the "rejects of life," to extend their trembling hands. True generosity lies in striving so that these hands--whether of individuals or entire peoples--need be extended less and less in supplication, so that more and more they become human hands which work and, working, transform the world.”
“Sometimes your mistakes are you biggest virtues. You learn so much from the mistake. Those things that you think are the worst thing that's happening to you can somehow turn around and be the greatest opportunity.”

Source : FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Nov 09, 2016

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