"...they'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they?...Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you run out of cheeks."

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Source : Richard Peck (2010). “A Season of Gifts”, p.25, Penguin

Richard Peck

#Running Quotes #Four Quotes #Trouble Quotes

“I have to trust that if a story is strong, it can find its readership, and good editors can steer me well.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“He who suffers wins in politics. The martyr does not obtain the victory personally, but his group, his successors, win in the long run.”
“If you're going to while away the years, it's far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive then in a fog, and I believe #â€Ž running helps you to do that. Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life,”
“Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.”
“One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.”
“Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 18, 2015
“The great thing, and the only thing, is to adore and praise GOD.”
“The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.”

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