"Love never comes without wounds; faith never comes without failure."

-- Erwin McManus

“It's great that it's raining. But people should not assume that a little bit of rain is going to solve our problem.”

Source : "California's water deficit: 11 trillion gallons" by Kurtis Alexander, www.sfgate.com. December 16, 2014.
“When you're in transition, you will need to find a different kind of security. It's not one of labels, guarantees or bank balances. It's guidance - the directions of your own inner voice. Moment by moment you know what to do. You are safer than ever before.”
“It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy.”
“Without good communication, a relationship is merely a hollow vessel carrying you along on a frustrating journey fraught with the perils of confusion, projection, and misunderstanding.”
“If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.”
“There are many drugs that have many serious side effects and that are harmful to people. Marijuana is no different than that.”
“Hey Mark Henry, where are your gold medals? We all know that if Mark Henry won a gold medal he'd just take it and have it bronzed.”
“It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.”

Source : Christian Scriver (1857). “Gotthold's Emblems: or Invisible things understood by things that are made. Tr. by R. Menzies”, p.128

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