"While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences but in our simple presence in life."

-- Brennan Manning

#Spiritual Quotes #Past Quotes #Simple Quotes

“Medical ***** users are now lobbying for the right to carry firearms. Because no one is a better shot than a stoned old man with glaucoma.”
“Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror. When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad...”
“In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.”
“As a kid in Fayetteville, N.C., I played golf all day, every day, a lot of it by myself. I spent hundreds of hours around the greens at Cape Fear Valley, the course my dad owned, hitting every shot I could think of - the one-hop-and-release, the chip that lands dead, the explosion from a bad lie.”
“We Irish prefer embroideries to plain cloth. To us Irish, memory is a canvas--stretched, primed, and ready for painting on. We love the "story" part of the word "history," and we love it trimmed out with color and drama, ribbons and bows. Listen to our tunes, observe a Celtic scroll: we always decorate our essence.”

Source : Frank Delaney (2010). “Frank Delaney's The Ireland Novels 3-Book Bundle: Tipperary, Shannon, Venetia Kelly's Traveling Show”, p.17, Random House
“When the computer and tablets are all about playing games, thats not interesting to me.”
“And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
“The monad, of which we shall speak here, is nothing but a simple substance which enters into compounds; simple, that is to say, without parts.”

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