"Whatever you are holding onto in this life, hold it loosely so it wonâ€™t hurt when the Lord has to pry your fingers open to take it away."

-- Priscilla Shirer

#Hurt Quotes #Holding On Quotes #Lord Quotes

“Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the future. We are of the arrogant generations who believe a lasting happiness was promised to us at birth. Promised? By whom?”

Source : Amin Maalouf (2008). “Origins: A Memoir”, p.342, Macmillan
“I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.”

Source : "Iraq Invasion Violated International Law: Blix". www.smh.com.au. August 07, 2003.
“Life loves the liver of it. You must live and life will be good to you.”
“Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!”

Source : Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2015). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.310, Harriet Beecher Stowe
“It is important for me, as a popular artist, to make clear to the governments of the United States and Mexico that despite the strategy of fear and intimidation to foreigners, despite their weapons, despite their immigration laws and military reserves, they will never be able to isolate the Zapatista communities from the people in the United States.”
“We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.”
“Sometimes I had to force the overpainting of three corners almost without any feeling for shape, almost without inspiration, only to find my way back, to get out of this hell...”

Source : Arnulf Rainer, Rudolf Herman Fuchs, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Haags Gemeentemuseum (1989). “Arnulf Rainer: an exhibition curated”, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum
“When compassion for the common man was born on Christmas Day, with it was born new hope among the multitudes. They feel a great, ever-rising determination to lift themselves and their children our of hunger and disease and misery, up to a higher level. Jesus started a fire upon the earth, and it is burning hot today, the fire of a new hope in the hearts of the hungry multitudes.”

Source : Frank Charles Laubach (1958). “The world is learning compassion”

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