"Through service to others, we develop a Christlike love and we experience joy. Service teaches patience and long-suffering as well as gentleness, goodness, and faith."

-- Merrill J. Bateman

#Long Quotes #Joy Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know.”
“Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota.”
“Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations.”
“The most certain way to make a man your enemy is to tell him you esteem him such.”
“The unconscious wants to flow into consciousness in order to reach the light, but at the same time it continually thwarts itself, because it would rather remain unconscious. That is to say, God wants to become man, but not quite.”
“The most significant thing is public participation. That assures the Afghan public that our promises are not empty.”

Source : "Ashraf Ghani: U.S. Critical To Afghanistan's Future". "Morning Edition" with Scott Neuman, www.npr.org. March 22, 2015.
“I handle my emotional pain by changing my mind-set. Exercising can exorcise emotional pain. Prayer and meditation. Visualization. Being able to talk about it by opening yourself to loved ones or a professional.”
“There is no savor more sweet, more salt than to be glad to be what, woman, and who, myself, I am...”

Source : Denise Levertov (1967). “The Sorrow Dance: Poems”, [New York] : New Directions

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