"You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart kept pumping an your blood kept blowing and your lungs kept filling, you didn't. The pang she felt for Tibby carried something like envy. You couldn't stand still for anything short of death, and God knew she had tried."

-- Ann Brashares

#Moving Quotes #Heart Quotes #Blood Quotes

“Inside any important philanthropy meeting, you witness heads of state meeting with investment managers and corporate leaders. All are searching for answers with their right hand to problems that others in the room have created with their left.”

Source : "The Charitable-Industrial Complex" by Peter Buffett, www.nytimes.com. July 26, 2013.
“Luck was with me. I saw no spiders. Luck was against me. I saw no specters.”
“If somebody gives me a chance to do something, I am going to use that space, that time, that light, that whatever it is and try and work with it.”
“I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical.”
“To allow mystery, which is to say to yourself, 'There could be more...things we don't understand,' is not to damn knowledge....It is to permit yourself an extraordinary, freedom: someone else does not have to be wrong in order that you might be right...This tolerance for mystery invigorates the imagination; and it is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.”
“Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.”

Source : "Actor Roma Downey: Being inspired by kindness and the centering ritual of tea". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.”
“She offered herself to the big, bad wolf and didn't scream when he took the first bite.”

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