"Remember this-all the sighing, mourning, sobbing, and complaining in the world, does not so undeniably evidence a man to be humble, as his overlooking his own righteousness, and living really and purely upon the righteousness of Christ."

-- Thomas Brooks

#Humble Quotes #Men Quotes #Mourning Quotes

“Now death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands and bands manufactured to precise specifications; we are so used to things transmuting into whatever we would like them to be that it comes as a profound outrage to encounter death, stubbornly unspinnable, only and immutably itself.”
“Our earliest poets were shamans. Today, as in the earliest times, true shamans are poets of consciousness who know the power of song and story to teach and to heal.”
“I would hate to be on a plane every day.”

Source : "The forgotten supermodel" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2009.
“An angel visited the green earth, and took a flower away.”
“I am not in front of my body, I am in it or rather I am it... If we can still speak of interpretation in relation to the perception of one's own body, we shall have to say that it interprets itself.”

Source : Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2002). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.173, Routledge
“Sometimes, being a feminist artist, there are times where I'm in a position where I just want to feel like I'm saying all the right things politically, or I feel like I have to mention my own project over other people's projects.”
“Prayer begins where our power ends.”
“I've developed a lot of reform proposals myself and been accused of trying to destroy Social Security, when the whole point was to try to save it. I think most people know that Social Security is bankrupt.”

Source : "This Week", abcnews.go.com. September 4, 2011.

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