"Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming."

-- Brennan Manning

#Real Quotes #Fall Quotes #Getting Back Up Quotes

“He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.”
“I think if we're going to live in this - in this world - in this technological world where information can be disseminated so quickly, we have to be serious and take firm, strong action against those who are putting American lives at risk. Because this will put people's lives at risk.”
“I think Fidel [Castro] has a stronger allergy to the market than his brother, but he is not getting in the way of what his brother is implementing.”
“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
“Comedy isn't really something where you get discovered. You can't network your way to being funny or talented. It's not hard to get seen if you're funny. If you're funny, talented, and work hard, you will go somewhere.”
“I tend to be a kind of left federalist. There's a value to more power of certain kinds being positioned at a more local level.”
“We are the only species of mammal that doubts our ability to give birth. It's profitable to scare women about birth. But let's stop it. I tell women: Your body is not a lemon.”

Source : FaceBook post by Ina May Gaskin from Mar 22, 2015
“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”

Source : Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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