"You remember how you were taught to write. Your mother put a pencil in your hand, took your hand in hers, and began to move it. Since you did not know at all what she meant to do, you left your hand completely free in hers. This is like the power of God in our lives."

-- Anthony of Sourozh

#Mother Quotes #Spiritual Quotes #Moving Quotes

“Shame doesn't exist in the animal kingdom. It's a human conception.”

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“People become less inhibited from wanting to change social and economic conditions in a radical fashion according to their own interests, and from being prepared to think of state intervention in ever wider spheres as possible and useful for this purpose.”
“When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.”
“I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely.”

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“My focus, my life, my world is now. You just can't plan the future.”
“Years later, my wife, Ilusion, woke me up to the realization that you can't just "dump" your whole species simply because you've had a few bad encounters with some of its members. ... Intimacy's a greater goal to seek. ...That true knowledge of intimacy within our own species will allow us to pass it along to interspecies relations.”
“And there you are on the shore, fitful and thoughtful, trying to attach them to an idea â€” some news of your own life. But the lilies are slippery and wildâ€”they are devoid of meaning, they are simply doing, from the deepest spurs of their being, what they are impelled to do every summer. And so, dear sorrow, are you.”
“I don't think that Donald Trump treated Hillary any differently than he treated Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio. He is a deeply disrespectful person who didn't have enough reverence for the office he was running for to act humane.”

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