"I'm not sure I really am a Humanist. I describe myself as a rigorous agnostic, which means that you cannot declare as a matter of material truth something that is in fact a matter of spiritual belief."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Spiritual Quotes #Mean Quotes #Matter Quotes

“I think Iâ€™ve always believed that there is one person in the universe who youâ€™re truly meant forâ€“for whom you are truly meantâ€“and the fact that sometimes there are two or even more people on the earth you can fall in love with really bothers me. It suggests that if you work hard you can be meant for anyone.”
“I want upon death to be buried, just like in the old days, where I decompose by the action of microorganisms, and I am dined upon by any form of creeping animal or root system that sees fit to do so.... I will have recycled back to the universe at least some of the energy that I have taken from it. And in so doing, at the conclusion of my scientific adventures, I will have come closer to the heavens than to Earth.”
“If you aren't hungry for God, you are full of yourself.”

Source : Mark Batterson (2013). “Going All In: One Decision Can Change Everything”, p.11, Zondervan
“the force of love will change your life so fast that you will scarcely believe it!”
“This isn't over," I said. "After everything we've been through, you don't get the right to brush me off. I'm not letting you off that easily." I wasn't sure if it was a threat, my last stab at defiance, or irrational words spoken straight from my splintered heart. "I want to protect you," Patch said quietly. He stood so close. All strength and heat and silent power. I couldn't escape him, now or ever. He'd always be there, consuming my every thought, my heart locked in his hands. I was drawn to him by forces I couldn't control, let alone escape. "But you didn't.”
“For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.”
“In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education - not in the classroom, where the old ways are taught, but in the factories and labs where new ways are wrought ... nothing has been so rare in recent years as an Ivy League graduate who has made a significant innovation in American enterprise.”
“Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.”

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