"It is a terrible thing to want something you cannot have. It takes you over. I couldn't think straight because of it. There was no one else, I realized, whom I could possibly tell."

-- Maggie O'Farrell

#Thinking Quotes #Want Something Quotes #Terrible Quotes

“Open your eyes and look for some man, or some work for the sake of men, which needs a little time, a little friendship, a little sympathy, a little sociability, a little human toil....It is needed in every nook and corner. Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.”
“As much wrong as I did in life and as many people as I hurt, I can say that God never stopped talking to me. I just stopped listening.”

Source : Sam Childers (2009). “Another Man's War: The True Story of One Man's Battle to Save Children in the Sudan”, p.35, Thomas Nelson Inc
“When I was on the 'Mickey Mouse Club,' there was Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Ryan Gosling and Christine Aguilera. But they were 12 and I was 17, so there was a bit of an age difference.”
“There's a lot of things more than baseball that I want to do.”
“I think the true rock fans are pretty loyal.”
“The most amazing fact about Jesus, unlike almost any other religious founder, is that he found God in disorder and imperfectionâ€”and told us that we must do the same or we would never be content on this earth.”
“He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long.”
“Great questions make great reporting.”

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