"The correct word is like any small detail - it enhances life."

-- Alexandra Stoddard

#Details Quotes #Small Details Quotes

“The arts and humanities define who we are as a people. That is their power -- to remind us of what we each have to offer, and what we all have in common. To help us understand our history and imagine our future. To give us hope in the moments of struggle and to bring us together when nothing else will.”
“For peace is not simply the absence of warfare, based on a precarious balance of power; it is fashioned by efforts directed day after day toward the establishment of the ordered universe willed by God, with a more perfect form of justice among men.”
“I know I promised. I said, 'Ask, seek, knock and you will find.' You say, 'But I have found loss. I have found dispossession. I have found letting go.' And I would say to you that until you dispossess what you have you can never possess what I want to give to you. Until you surrender your understanding, you will never get My wisdom. You would say, 'Lord, what is at the end of this process?'”
“I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.”
“That which the truth nourishes should thrive.”
“A good character is something you must make for yourself. It cannot be inherited from parents.”
“Healthier, perhaps, to find beauty in life and feel it expand inside of us.”
“Unfortunately, it is much easier to shut one's eyes to good than to evil. Pain and sorrow knock at our doors more loudly than pleasure and happiness; and the prints of their heavy footsteps are less easily effaced.”

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