"I'm a huge advocate of prayer. I've been praying since I was fifteen years old and the doctor told me I was going to be a mother and I was like "what?" I started praying that day that God would help me do what I needed to do to be a good mother and to raise this baby boy that I was going to be blessed with. I haven't stopped praying in years."

-- Cathy Hughes

#Mother Quotes #Baby Quotes #Prayer Quotes

“The Jews always complained, kvetching about false gods, and erected the biggest false God, Jehovah, in middle of western civilization.”
“I had no fear of the stream's perils, and I listened with the greatest contentment to the quiet slap of water on rocks, the running whisper of the current, and the taps and creaks and croaks that rose with the mist around me. Overhead swing the glittering stars, and the bright moon shone down and lit the curling ripples of the water. At no time in my life had I been in greater danger from the elements, and yet if I learned that heaven is such as that night was, I should deem it a joy worth the dying.”
“The carrot and the stick are prevasive and persuasive motivators. But if you treat people like donkeys, they will perform like donkeys.”

Source : John Whitmore (2010). “Coaching for Performance: GROWing Human Potential and Purpose: The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership”, p.106, Nicholas Brealey Publishing
“Men ask the way to Cold Mountain, Cold Mountain: there's no through trail.”

Source : Paul Kahn, Hanshan, Gary Snyder (1989). “Han Shan in English”, White Pine Pr
“It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition.... They both speak by and to the same organs; the bodies in which both of them are clothed may be said to be of the same substance, their affections are kindred, and almost identical, not necessarily differing even in degree; Poetry sheds no tears "such as Angels weep," but natural and human tears; she can boast of no celestial ichor that distinguishes her vital juices from those of prose; the same human blood circulates through the veins of them both.”
“There's the downtown area of Tupelo. Did you see the skyscrapers? Two stories.”
“I must confess I took a couple or three jobs just for the money.”
“What did Bush do on 9/11? He ran away and hid. Even Reagan knew more about leadership than that, and he was as bad a symbol of America as I can think of, off-hand. But at least he's been in enough cowboy movies to know he had to come out and stand on top of the rubble and be seen shaking his fist or something.”

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