"Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing."

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Source : Naomi Shihab Nye (1995). “Words under the words: selected poems”, The Eighth Mountain Press

Naomi Shihab Nye

#Kindness Quotes #Sorrow Quotes

“Everything that is loved, if it is not loved for His sake then this love is nothing but distress and punishment. Every action that is not performed for His sake then it is wasted and severed. Every heart that does not reach Him is wretched; veiled from achieving its success and happiness.”
“Nothing is necessary for you in maintaining a Christian life, but just to stay by the helm, and put yourself where the power is. Come unto God, unite yourself to God, and the doing power you have is infinite.”
“The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.”
“I could become like that dyslexic agnostic in the old joke - the one who lies in bed and tries to figure out if his dog exists.”
“I see myself being married to my girlfriend and backpacking all over the world. If I can go out and do a 15-mile hike and climb a 12,000-ft. peak, I'm good to go.”
“My wife says when I go out to the refrigerator, I do three minutes (entertaining) when the light goes on!”
“We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers.”

Source : Jimmy Carl Black Interview by Stephen Moore in Munich, Germany, www.stevemoorebooks.com. March 29, 2000.
“And this is what has taken place. The delusion of the day is to enrich all classes at the expense of each other; it is to generalize plunder under pretense of organizing it.”

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