"The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust"

-- Brennan Manning

#Spiritual Quotes #Gratitude Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“If for harming himself a man forfeits his freedom, then he was never free in the first place.”
“Talk to the guys that ain't doing nothing, don't talk to me. I just want eight guys out there with me who want to play.”
“Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.”
“Well blest is he who has a dear one dead; A friend he has whose face will never change- A dear communion that will not grow strange; The anchor of a love is death.”

Source : John Boyle O'Reilly (1913). “Selected Poems”
“Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.”
“If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.”
“Until I dicover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep. "My dear uncle-" I began. "Nor you either," he added.”
“Also, it's not the mathematical skill that's critical to winning, it's the discipline of being able to stick to the system. There are very few people who can withstand the losses emotionally and still stick with the system. Probably only one in five hundred people has the necessary discipline to be successful.”

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