"Peace is worth far more than anything they might take from you."

-- Vincent de Paul

#Faith Quotes #Might Quotes

“What part of Canada are you from, honey?" "THE LEFT PART," said Jay.”
“You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.”
“Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard.”
“Everybody is somebody's Jew. And today the Palestinians are the Jews of the Israelis.”

Source : "A strike against silence" by Antony Lerman, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2009.
“People do not follow uncommitted leaders. Commitment can be displayed in a full range of matters to include the work hours you choose to maintain, how you work to improve your abilities, or what you do for your fellow workers at personal sacrifice.”
“But say That death be not one stroke, as I supposed, Bereaving sense, but endless misery From this day onward, which I feel begun Both in me, and without me, and so last To perpetuity; ay me, that fear Comes thund'ring back with dreadful revolution On my defenceless head; both Death and I Am found eternal, and incorporate both, Nor I on my part single, in me all Paradise Lost Posterity stands cursed: fair patrimony That I must leave ye, sons; O were I able To waste it all myself, and leave ye none!”
“To paint a mass simple and big you must keep out all the lights and darks that do not belong to its general value.”
“Where do you put your attention? On fear or love? I wish the choice were made just once and not repeated every moment of the day.”

Source : Sophy Burnham (2011). “For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners”, p.50, Penguin

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