"I donâ€™t claim to know an over-arching â€˜Meaning of Life,â€™ but I do operate under the understanding that life should not be lived under the pretense that it is simply a test propagated by an invisible, intangible, Creator-God. And it should not be spent identifying with religious traditions and organized groups that, historically, have been at the root of a tremendous amount of oppression and violence."

-- David G. McAfee

#Religious Quotes #Roots Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“You just have to take a little salt, and since I'm doing that it's, like, BOOM! In one week, I felt it kick in. All the commotion around me, all the water around me, moving left and right around me, became like a lake.”
“There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive.”
“When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.”
“A mistake in drawing becomes difficult to detect when the eye is familiar with it.”
“Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.”
“Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.”

Source : "All Fourteen 8,000ers". Book by Reinhold Messner, 1987.
“I'm on performance enhancing drugs, so I may cause drowsiness.”
“With a few exceptions, the critics of children's books are remarkably lenient souls.... Most of us assume there is something goodin every child; the critics go from this to assume there is something good in every book written for a child. It is not a sound theory.”

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