"I thought being faithful was about becoming someone other than who I was...it wasn't until I failed that I began to wonder if my human wholeness might be more useful to God than my exhausting goodness."

-- Barbara Brown Taylor

#Faithful Quotes #Might Quotes #Becoming Quotes

“At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.”

Source : "The American Action Painter," Art News, Dec. 1952
“One should be allowed to choose one's burden.”

Source : Mary Butts (1998). “Ashe of Rings, and Other Writings”, McPherson & Company
“Imagination and reality have little in common”
“Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.”
“You would always beat me; not so much because you are a better fighter as because you will not accept defeat.”

Source : John Christopher (2015). “The Sword of the Spirits”, p.99, Simon and Schuster
“If you say you don't have money to help a animal shelter, why then do you have money to buy meat?”

Source : FaceBook post by H.E. Tsem Tulku Rinpoche from Sep 30, 2011
“How can we live without the unknown before us?”

Source : René Char, Mary Ann Caws (1992). “Selected Poems of René Char”, p.39, New Directions Publishing
“Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.”

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