"God picks up the reed-flute world and blows. Each note is a need coming through one of us, a passion, a longing pain. Remember the lips where the wind-breath originated, and let your note be clear. Don't try to end it. Be your note."

-- Rumi

#Inspirational Quotes #Pain Quotes #Passion Quotes

“You've got to think of the fine times you had with your mate, not the moment of his perishin'. Every tear you shed now only wets his windin' sheet and disturbs his rest”

Source : L. A. Meyer (2004). “Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy”, p.110, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford.”
“The most common self-inflicted put-down is 'I am not a pastor-I am just a layperson.' This is all part of a clever satanic scheme to neutralize apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers along with the entire army of disciples, already positioned in the marketplace.”

Source : Ed Silvoso (2010). “Anointed for Business (Large Print 16pt)”, p.18, ReadHowYouWant.com
“We ask God to endow human souls with justice so that they may be fair and may strive to provide for the comfort of all that each member of humanity may pass his life in the utmost comfort and welfare. Then this material world will become the very paradise of the Kingdom this elemental earth will be in a heavenly state and all the servants of God will live in the utmost joy happiness and gladness. We must all strive and concentrate all our thoughts in order that such happiness may accrue to the world of humanity.”
“I'm not pretending to be an academic, or to have this down to a science. It's strictly my taste. But there is a connection between everything I play and the sets I put together.”
“[...] elite social engineers appear to be aiming at a "hetero-homo" world, i.e. where individuals are bisexual, promiscuous and bereft of family.”
“The big things I've had are things I bought myself.”
“Electricity is but yet a new agent for the arts and manufactures, and, doubtless, generations unborn will regard with interest this century, in which it has been first applied to the wants of mankind.”

Source : Alfred SMEE (F.R.S., Surgeon to the Bank of England.) (1851). “Elements of Electro-Metallurgy, or the art of working in metals by the galvanic fluid”, p.8

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