"Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in my life. I scavenge from the best."

-- Jessica Hagedorn

#Appreciate Quotes #World Quotes #Taught Quotes

“True faith is never found alone; it is accompanied by expectation.”
“Integrity, the choice between what's convenient and what's right.”

Source : Tony Dungy (2011). “Uncommon: Finding Your Path to Significance”, p.27, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“We magnify Him who is worthy above all others and adore Him simply because of who He is.”

Source : Jack W. Hayford (1992). “The Heart of Praise: Daily Ways to Worship the Father with Psalms”
“When a man receives something Divine, in his heart he rejoices; but when he receives something diabolic, he is disturbed. The Christian heart, when it has received something Divine, does not demand anything else in order to convince it that this is precisely from the Lord; but by that very effect it is convinced that this is heavenly, for it senses within itself spiritual fruits: love, joy, peace, and the rest (cf. Gal. 5:22).”
“Apply the way of karate to all things. Therein lies its beauty.”

Source : Gichin Funakoshi, Genwa Nakasone, Jotaro Takagi (2003). “空手道二十訓: The Spiritual Legacy of the Master”, p.63, Kodansha International
“Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country.”
“How many more copycats are waiting in the wings for their moment of fame â€” from a national media machine that rewards them with the wall-to-wall attention and sense of identity that they crave â€” while provoking others to try to make their mark? A dozen more killers? A hundred? More? How can we possibly even guess how many, given our nation's refusal to create an active national database of the mentally ill?”

Source : National Rifle Association Press Conference Announcing "National School Shield" Program Following the Newton, Connecticut Shootings, delivered 21 December 2012
“Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.”

Source : Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.198, Penguin

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