"Mortals always want something more- they wish for money, but what they're really after is to be carefree. Power when what they really want is control. Beauty when they want love. Sometimes they know it, sometimes they don't"

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Source : Jackson Pearce (2010). “As You Wish”, p.19, Harper Collins

Jackson Pearce

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“Out here on the perimeter there are no stars. Out here we is stoned. Immaculate.”
“I play to lift a city, and raise a banner.”
“I coach church planters to look at the ethnic diversity of schools and neighborhoods they are near. This will be an indicator how ethnically diverse their congregation can become.”

Source : "The Gospel and Multiethnic Churches: An Interview with Derwin Gray". Interview with Preston Sprinkle, www.patheos.com. January 11, 2016.
“It's all right leaping about the stage when you're 20 but when you get to 25 it gets a bit embarrassing”
“The United States government, in figuring our gross national product, defines 'durable goods' as anything that will last three years.”

Source : Barbara Holland (1999). “Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories”, Harcourt
“Prayers are designed to raise God-consciousness five times a day, throughout one's life. Prayers also provide regular exercise - like yoga or Tai Chi or Qigong built into the day - and serve as a calming retreat from the daily demands of life. Muslims thus learn to balance deeni wa dunyavi (the spiritual and the worldly). They can't abandon one for the other; that's the essence of their faith.”

Source : Haroon Siddiqui (2010). “Groundwork Being Muslim”, p.59, A&C Black
“I just love getting dirty.”
“the end of anything is a relief. In every relationship, even the most valuable, there are certain unpleasant tensions - and the ending of it snaps those taut inner wires.”

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