"In times that are dark and God seems far [away], I look for him in small ways - the innocent laughter of a child on an airplane, the way the rain falls down through tree branches, the aroma of honeysuckle as I ride my bike down the Natchez Trace, and through the love of friends who have carried me through the darkest times of my life."

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Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com

Anne Marie Miller

#Laughter Quotes #Children Quotes #Rain Quotes

“I had found a new friend. The surprising thing is where Iâ€™d found him â€“ not up a tree or sulking in the shade, or splashing around in one of the hill streams, but in a book. No one had told us kids to look there for a friend. Or that you could slip inside the skin of another. Or travel to another place with marshes, and where, to our ears, the bad people spoke like pirates.”

Source : Lloyd Jones (2011). “Mister Pip”, p.23, ReadHowYouWant.com
“There's something about 'Strictly Come Dancing.' Everywhere I go, people wish me good luck; cabbies toot their horns. It's lovely. I have a theory: in straitened times, there's nothing like a bit of unapologetic escapism.”
“We are tyrannized by our options.”
“When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.”

Source : Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.57, Macmillan
“Playful arising is authorized by both risk and trust in the process and in oneself. To be truly playful and improvisational one must not look for results.”
“Rahul Dravid being known as 'The Wall' is pretty much spot on. 'The fortress' could also describe Rahul. Because once, Dravid was set, you needed the bowling equivalent of a dozen cannon firing all at once to blast him down.”
“You can't break my heart. It's made of water.”

Source : Naomi Wallace (2010). “In the Heart of America and Other Plays”, p.109, ReadHowYouWant.com
“And without forgiveness, there is never any peace.”

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