"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed."

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Source : Storm Jameson (1941). “The End of this War”

Storm Jameson

#Inspirational Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Risk Quotes

“It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.”

Source : Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.399, Simon and Schuster
“I love watching a good horse do what he's bred to do - I guess that's what I like the most about it. And I love to see good athletes do what they're bred to do.”
“God must have been engaged from the beginning, and must now be engaged in progressive development, and infinite as God is, he must have been less powerful in the past than he is today.... We may be certain that, through self-effort, the inherent and innate powers of God have been developed to a God-like degree. Thus he has become God.”
“Genuine forgiveness is participation, reunion overcoming the powers of estrangement. . . We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.”

Source : Paul Tillich (2005). “The New Being”, p.10, U of Nebraska Press
“It was that white cloak that soiled me, not the other way around.”
“I love myself that much and I will never apologize to you.”
“What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over. Get a post-bac or try writing for the first time. The notion that it's too late to do anything is comical. It's hilarious. We're graduating college. We're so young. We can't, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.”

Source : Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.3, Simon and Schuster
“It's okay to look back, just don't stare.”

Source : "Actress Doris Roberts on the Emmy Awards and her nomination". Chat, www.cnn.com. September 7, 2000.

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