"And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been"

-- Rainer Maria Rilke

#New Year Quotes #Nature Quotes #New Beginnings Quotes

“Meanwhile, hard-working Americans are increasingly faced with workplace conditions in which critically important safeguards are watered down, emerging problems are ignored, and enforcement is scaled back.”
“Time is a slippery concept, and we are often wrong about it... All too often we find ourselves looking in the right places at the wrong times.”
“I love a man who knows how to walk. I do like a gentleman, a man who opens the door and a man who walks on the proper side of the street with you. Thereâ€™s something safe about it; heâ€™s protecting you. Thatâ€™s a really nice quality. You donâ€™t see it as often anymore. I pay attention to those things. I know it sounds silly, but I love that. Iâ€™m fortunate to say that I have a good guy. Oh, and he has to have great hands. Thereâ€™s a lot I find sexy in a man, but strong, manly hands are very important.”
“Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness”
“I usually feel like the role comes to you to sort of illuminate some piece of where you are in your life. I feel like I myself am a single woman and I'm childless - by choice - at this point, and I don't know what will happen.”
“There is no defeat unless one loses God, and then all is defeat, though it be housed in castles and buried in fortunes.”

Source : Frank Charles Laubach (1990). “Man of Prayer: Selected Writings of a World Missionary”
“Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.”
“Have you ever noticed that Jesus is never recorded as taking a holiday? He retired for the purposes of his mission, not from it. He was never destroyed by his work; he was always on top of it. He moved among people as the master of every situation. He was busier than anyone; the multitudes were always at him, yet he had time, for everything and everyone. He was never hurried, or harassed, or too busy. He had complete supremacy over time; he never let it dictate to him. He talked of my time; my hour. He knew exactly when the moment had come for doing something and when it had not.”

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