"If women were humbler, men would be more honest."

-- John Vanbrugh

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“As we gaze into the mirror it holds up for us, we too easily imagine that what we behold is Nature when in fact we see the reflection of our own unexamined longings and desires.”
“Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.”

Source : FaceBook post by Barbara Brown Taylor from Mar 07, 2013
“So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me 'arch priestess of the sightless,' 'wonder woman,' and a 'modern miracle.' But when it comes to a discussion of poverty, and I maintain that it is the result of wrong economics-that the industrial system under which we live is at the root of much of the physical deafness and blindness in the world-that is a different matter!”
“Discipleship is the art and science of helping people find, follow and fully become like Jesus. Discipleship happens as God's people show love, share truth and live life with one another, making new disciples along the way.”
“All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.”
“The most rabidly religious people are the most rabidly evil.”
“At a time when India is going through great changes and, with China, is likely to inherit the world from the West, it is important that writers like me try to highlight the brutal injustices of society.”

Source : "Roars of anger". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2008.
“A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love.”

Source : William Watson Purkey (2000). “What Students Say to Themselves: Internal Dialogue and School Success”, Corwin

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