"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen."

-- Mark Twain

#Happy Birthday Quotes #Time Quotes #Growing Up Quotes

“O Jesus! Remember the sadness that Thou didst experience when, contemplating in the light of Thy divinity the predestination of those who would be saved by the merits of Thy sacred passion, thou didst see at the same time the great multitude of reprobates who would be damned for their sins, and Thou didst complain bitterly of those hopeless, lost, and unfortunate sinners.”
“Without stones there is no arch”

Source : "Invisible Cities". Book by Italo Calvino, 1972.
“Prayer lays hold of God's plan and becomes the link between His will and its accomplishment on earth. Amazing things happen, and we are given the privilege of being the channels of the Holy Spirit's prayer.”
“Even Hitler didn't wake up going, 'Let me do the most evil thing I can do today.' I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was 'good.'”
“With stillness comes the benediction of peaceâ€. â€œThinking isolates a situation or event and calls it good or bad, as if it had a separate existence.Â Through excessive reliance on thinking, reality becomes fragmented.Â This fragmentation is an illusion, but seems very real while you are trapped in it.”
“But perhaps this is what goes wrong with long marriages--you state your opinions, your likes and dislikes, at the beginning and then forget to mention when they change" (135).”
“We've learned to see the world in gasps.”
“The media treats fear like a one-night stand. They jump on it and then they leave the next day and they forget - remember the Alar Scare? Things - see, nobody even remembers Alar.”

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