"The discovery of God lies in the daily and the ordinary, not in the spectacular and the heroic. If we cannot find God in the routines of home and shop, then we will not find Him at all."

-- Richard J. Foster

#Lying Quotes #Home Quotes #Discovery Quotes

“I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom.”
“If it's third-and-one, then I'm going in, no ifs or buts about.”
“I'm looking for a balance of reported and essayistic work by up-and-coming women journalists. Often that means combing online-only sources or alt weeklies.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.”

Source : Ellen Raskin (2004). “The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)”, p.42, Penguin
“I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal.”
“Our general attitude toward life and our attitude toward sexuality cannot be separated. We cannot choose where we will build strongly and where we will disregard, for all the threads interweave to make the human pattern.”
“It is as if one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the Southern Hemisphere of the brain.”
“Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.”

Source : "Self-Consciousness: Memoirs". Book by John Updike, 1989.

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