"So when I can, I try my best to meditate a little bit every day, and that helps a lot. I think that just taking a minute, or however long you can, and really acknowledging everything that you have. Acknowledging what you have, and at the same time, acknowledging what other folks don't have. And you know, you don't have to feel guilty about it, but definitely to feel grateful is the first step in giving it back."

-- Thao Nguyen

#Grateful Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes

“Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young.”
“Keep doing what you love to the best of your ability. Stop judging and get out of your own way.”
“It is an excellent sign, that after the cares and labors of the day, you can return to your pious exercises and meditations with undiminished attention.”
“If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct her.”
“Unless we're very intentional about meditating on these truths [that show God's love], they slip from our thoughts like misty dreams that evaporate in the morning light. That's why Luther said we must take heed then, to embrace...the love and kindness of God...[and to] daily excercise [our] faith therein, entertain no doubt of God's love and kindness.”

Source : Elyse M. Fitzpatrick “Because He Loves Me: How Christ Transforms Our Daily Life”, Crossway
“To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.”

Source : Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (2014). “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”, p.141, Simon and Schuster
“That's the miracle of telling a story in film: You can express something inside someone's mind.”
“The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.”

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