"Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule."

-- Lewis B. Smedes

#Forgiveness Quotes #People Quotes #Risk Quotes

“You can't condemn a whole group of people because of the actions of a few.”

Source : Justin Somper (2008). “Vampirates: Blood Captain”, p.80, Hachette UK
“All of the press and stuff - that's the scary stuff. The acting is what I got trained to do.”
“He'd written me up a proposal of why dating him was a sound decision. It had included things like "I'll give up cigarettes unless I really, really need one" and "I'll unleash romantic surprises every week, such as: an impromptu picnic, roses, or a trip to Parisâ€”but not actually any of those things because now they're not surprises.”
“After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.”
“People could see in me who I am now, an Olympic champ, the best in the world.”
“Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries Is not the goal but the exercise.”
“All things obey fixed laws.”
“We have to work extra hard, because we in America are very ethnocentric--we think our culture is superior. Why's that? It's because we've got moon rocks, and nobody else has moon rocks.”

Source : Dick Couch (2007). “Chosen Soldier: The Making of a Special Forces Warrior”, p.302, Three Rivers Press

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