"Childhood is what ended me up in the hospital and teetering on the edge of deathly alcoholism. It was really good for me to accept it. To accept all the embarrassment and the shame so I don't feel like I used to."

-- Augusten Burroughs

#Childhood Quotes #Shame Quotes #Embarrassment Quotes

“When God has access to our heart, mind, and soul through years of fellowship and worship, He allows us to see more of His activity and to be more involved in His miraculous work.”

Source : Henry Blackaby, Richard Blackaby (2007). “Discovering God's Daily Agenda”, Thomas Nelson Inc
“When in doubt, ingest carbs.”

Source : Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.28, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“You can make all the excuses you want, but if you're not mentally tough and you're not prepared to play every night, you're not going to win.”

Source : "Making a Run From the Border". Chicago Tribune, February 17, 1998.
“It is not necessary to maintain a conversation when we are in the presence of God. We can come into His presence and rest our weary souls in quiet contemplation of Him. Our groanings, which cannot be uttered, rise to Him and tell Him better than words how dependent we are upon Him.”
“Man-hating is everywhere, but everywhere it is twisted and transformed, disguised, tranquilized, and qualified. It coexists, never peacefully, with the love, desire, respect, and need women also feel for men. Always man-hating is shadowed by its milder, more diplomatic and doubtful twin, ambivalence.”

Source : Judith Levine (1993). “My Enemy, My Love: Women, Men, and the Dilemmas of Gender”, Anchor Books
“At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start.”
“So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.”
“A permanent path That, once illuminated, Goes ever onward â€“ a way homeâ€¦”

Source : Scott Hastie, “However Beautiful”

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