"The truth is, I don't have a real clue what love is - how to find it, how to give it. Once upon a time I thought I knew."

-- Ellen Hopkins

#Real Quotes #Love Is Quotes #Giving Quotes

“My father worked for the Foreign Office, so he was away a lot of the time. We were a very volatile family. There was a lot of love and a lot of conflict. The conflict kicked in mostly during my adolescence.”
“I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.”
“You must be sure that whatever health is brought to mankind it all comes from God.”

Source : Emma Curtis Hopkins (2012). “Scientific Christian Mental Practice”, p.137, Jazzybee Verlag
“Jesus has many lovers of His kingdom of heaven, but he has few bearers of His Cross. Many desire His consolation, but few desire His tribulation. He finds many comrades in eating and drinking, but He finds few hands who will be with Him in His abstinence and fastingBut those who love Jesus purely for Himself, and not for their own profit or convenience, bless Him as heartily in temptation and tribulation and in all other adversities as they do in time of consolation. And if He never sent them consolation, they would still bless and praise Him.”
“To the scientists of the Renaissance, your critic was really your ally, helping you advance upon reality. Critics in science are not like drama critics, determining flops and successes. Criticism to scientists is just another means of finding out whether they're wrong, like running another experiment to see if it confirms or refutes a theory. Along with the advocacy principle of the courtroom, it is one of the best ways human beings have evolved to get closer to the truth.”
“What I had mastered was fly-fishing Rule # 1: Remove all hooks from soft tissue under water, where near-freezing temperatures anesthetize exposed nerve endings and you can't hear your fellow anglers' hysterical laughter.”
“Be naked in the splendor of the truth of who you are.”
“Mixing humor and politics is something that works.”

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