"We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity. So it may be asked what value is there to a human life. There is so much pain in the world. What does it mean to have to suffer so much if our lives are nothing more than the blink of an eye? . . .I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something."

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Source : "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok, (p. 217), 1967.

Chaim Potok

#Pain Quotes #Mean Quotes #Eye Quotes

“If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.”

Source : Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL
“I think there's a lot of different ways to win. You've seen teams that win championships with a super-duper star like Kobe Bryant. Those championship teams with Michael Jordan certainly had a great, great player.”
“Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory.”
“Sometimes, the best songs are the ones you write without any pen and paper or audio recording device or guitar in your hands. Because there's nothing between you and the melody; it's just a great lyric.”
“Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others.”
“Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.”

Source : Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address at Marietta, Ohio, July 8, 1938.
“Don't forget that Linux became only possible because 20 years of OS research was carefully studied, analyzed, discussed and thrown away.”

Source : Linux Kernel mailing list, 1999.
“The best thing about my job is that I work with the best creative people in the business in their fields.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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