"My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year."

-- Haruki Murakami

#Years Quotes #Faults Quotes #Born Quotes

“For me exercise is more than just physical, itâ€™s therapeutic.”
“Catholicism is the big house of Christianity. It's got many, many rooms in it. And I've always been attracted to the rooms which are to do with prayer. The mystical strain is the strain whereby the whole day can be given over to prayer through what we call lectio divina, prayerful reading of Scripture, through practice of meditation of when one uses the imagination and the intellect with respect to images, and then finally, and most difficult of all, contemplation, where one empties the mind of all images and all ideas, all concepts, in order to be completely attentive to God.”
“Business, numbers, negotiations, all that stuff I wouldn't go near.”
“There are things that are not sayable. Thatâ€™s why we have art.”
“My domineering lover made no apologies for his caveman tendencies.”
“Much that is natural, to the will must yield. Men manufacture both machine and soul, And use what they imperfectly control To dare a future from the taken routes.”

Source : Thom Gunn (2010). “The Sense of Movement”, p.6, Faber & Faber
“Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill.”
“My dear young women, with all my heart I urge you not to look to contemporary culture for your role models and mentors. Please look to your faithful mothers for a pattern to follow. Model yourselves after them, not after celebrities whose standards are not the Lord's standards and whose values may not reflect an eternal perspective. Look to your mother.”

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