"My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do."

-- George Steiner

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“My injuries are a long way from my heart.”
“What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.”
“There is, apparently, some law of nature decreeing that all home construction must double in its projected cost and take four times longer than originally anticipated.”
“It was Nick's voice Nick's arms. He turned me on my back and swam with me, pulling me to the bank.”
“The Book of Revelation is the strangest book in the Bible, and the most controversial. Instead of stories and moral teaching, it offers only visions - dreams and nightmares, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, earthquakes, plagues and war.”
“Imagine your mind as a garden and thoughts as the seeds you plant. Habitual negative, unhealthy, self-critical thoughts produce the weeds and thistles of depression, discontent, and anxiety in the garden of your mind. Luckily, the opposite is also true. Consistently planting positive, healthy, constructive thoughts will yield a crop of beautiful feelings, such as gratitude, love, and joy.”

Source : Sue Patton Thoele (2008). “The Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance, and Opening Your Heart”, p.52, New Harbinger Publications
“Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.”

Source : Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet (1866). “Outlines of Theology”, p.301
“Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.”

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