"We shortchange ourselves by regarding religious faith as a matter of intellectual assent. This is a modern aberration; the traditional Christian view is far more holistic, regarding faith as a whole-body experience. Sometimes it is, as W.H. Auden described it, 'a matter of choosing what is difficult all one's days as if it were easy."

-- Kathleen Norris

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“It doesn't take talent to hustle.”
“Ah, could the soul, like the body, have a mirror! It has,--a friend.”
“I'm not a designer, I'm a creator.”

Source : "Work Hard, Play Hard: Backstage With Nicola Formichetti". Interview with Alice Pfeiffer, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 20, 2011.
“Oceania is vast, Oceania is expanding, Oceania is hospitable and generous, Oceania is humanity rising from the depths of brine and regions of fire deeper still, Oceania is us. We are the sea, we are the ocean.”
“In obstetrics and gynecology, the term abortionist is still a dirty word.”
“Winning is not a secret that belongs to a very few, winning is something that we can learn by studying ourselves, studying the environment and making ourselves ready for any challenge that is in front of us.”
“Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.”
“And if I were to ask myself from what literature we who have been nurtured almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks and Romans, and of the Semitic race, the Jewish, may draw the corrective which is most wanted in order to make our inner life more perfect, more comprehensive, more universal, in fact more truly human a life... again I should point to India.”

Source : Max Muller (1999). “India: What Can it Teach Us?”, p.24, Book Tree

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