"my love isn't a weapon, it's a lifeline, reach out and take hold, and don't let go!"

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Source : Francine Rivers (2013). “Redeeming Love”, p.292, Lion Fiction

Francine Rivers

#Letting Go Quotes #Weapons Quotes

“Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love”
“When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.”
“The hardest thing about a musical is making sure everybody is working on the same damn show. That is the monster.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.”
“I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road.”

Source : Jimmy Carl Black Interview by Stephen Moore in Munich, Germany, www.stevemoorebooks.com. March 29, 2000.
“I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian and others, but mostly you need ordeal. My idea is this: the artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business: Beethoven's deafness, Goya's deafness, Milton's blindness, that kind of thing.”

Source : "EM Forster's work tailed off once he finally had sex. Better that than a life of despair" by Sam Leith, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2010.
“Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.”

Source : "To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue" edited by Ellen Land-Weber, Part I, Holland, Ch. 1, (p. 48), 2000.
“There was a Young Person in pink, Who called out for something to drink; But they said, 'O my daughter, there's nothing but water!' Which vexed that Young Person in pink.”

Source : Edward Lear (1994). “Complete Nonsense”, p.98, Wordsworth Editions

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