"I don't believe in an interventionist God"

-- Nick Cave

#Believe Quotes

“It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.”
“Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.”

Source : Mary Catherine Bateson (2007). “Composing a Life”, p.111, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“The rules of sexism do not free men from the terror of violence; they only keep men from complaining about it.”
“If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.”
“A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”
“You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness!”
“One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.”
“Well, I think some people are very happy in retirement. And in a year and a half I'm going to see how happy I feel in retirement. I'm just going to not work quite so hard, but I'll continue to write as long as God gives me breath.”

Source : "Leaving Mitford: Jan Karon on Life and Writing". Interview with Belinda Elliott, www.cbn.com.

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