"Why is it that so many people think that charity consists in giving away merely what they cannot use instead of the article the recipient needs?"

-- Mabel Osgood Wright

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom.”
“Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own; but only that, the rest belongs to chance.”
“There is no relationship in life that comes with the promise of zero pain.”

Source : Obert Skye, Ben Sowards (2008). “The Eyes of the Want”, p.174, Simon and Schuster
“conformity has been a devastating thing. Its ill effects continue right to this day. Customers still look at the woman in the next chair and say, 'I'll have what she has.' That's all right for ordering at a restaurant - but not in a beauty parlor.”

Source : Virginia Graham (1967). “Don't blame the mirror”
“People's reactions to opera the first time they see it is very dramatic; they either love it or they hate it. If they love it, they will always love it. If they don't, they may learn to appreciate it, but it will never become part of their soul.”
“Think of all the hate there is in Red China, then take a look around to Selma, Alabama.”

Source : Song: Eve Of Destruction, Album: Eve of Destruction
“Suddenly contemporary Christianity sales pitches don't seem adequate anymore. Ask Jesus to come into your heart. Invite Jesus to come into your life. Pray this prayer, sign this card, walk down this aisle, and accept Jesus as your personal Savior. . . We have taken the infinitely glorious Son of God, who endured the infinitely terrible wrath of God and who now reigns as the infinitely worthy Lord of all, and we have reduced him to a poor, puny Savior who is just begging for us to accept him. Accept him? Do we really think Jesus needs our acceptance? Don't we need him?”
“I'm not jealous in traditional ways - of boyfriends or babies or bank accounts - but I do covet other women's styles of being.”

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