"Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven."

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Rumi

#Expectations Quotes #Heaven Quotes #Negotiation Quotes

“Sanctification costs to the extent of "an intense narrowing of all our interests on earth and an immense broadening of all our interests in God.”
“God, though this life is but a wraith, Although we know not what we use, Although we grope with little faith, Give me the heart to fight and lose.”

Source : Louis Untermeyer (1935). “Selected poems and parodies of Louis Untermeyer”
“I may be loaded. I may be drunk. But I ain't stupid.”
“When it comes to luck, you make your own.”

Source : Song: Lucky Town, Album: Lucky Town, 1992
“I'll tell you something about tough things. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find the way through. On the Food Network they have these shows where cooks have to put a meal together with all these weird ingredients. That's a lot like my life-dealing with things you wouldn't think ever go together. But a good cook can make the best meal out of the craziest combinations.”
“The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.”
“Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand dimensions and delusions he himself has never lived through? Propaganda, coercion, and scientific proofs are powerless. But happily, in our world there is a way. It is art, and it is literature.”
“It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.”

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