"To begin to understand the gorgeous fever that is consciousness, we must try to understand the senses and what they can tell us about the ravishing world we have the privilege to inhabit."

-- Diane Ackerman

#Trying Quotes #Fever Quotes #World Quotes

“Thus there will be three effects of nearness to Jesus humility, happiness, and holiness.”
“A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.”
“You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognizes something about themselves or they don't -- You hope they don't leave the theatre thinking that was nice...now where's the cab?'”
“You have to figure out as a band how a band becomes a business, and then you have to keep that business mentality separate from the creative one, which is good for the songs. It's always a work in progress.”
“For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.”
“Guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us, For we have no help but Thee.”

Source : 'Sacred Lyrics' (1821) 'Lead Us, Heavenly Father'
“Remember that you are young, beautiful, individual and unique and that is worth everything in this world.”
“Allah made the faith for you as a purity from polytheism (and unbelief).”

Source : "Ayan al-Shī'ah" by al-Sayyid Muhsin al-Amin, vol.1, p. 316,

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