"A flower, if you bruise it under your feet, rewards you by giving you its perfume."

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Source : Richard Wurmbrand (2017). “Tortured for Christ: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.63, David C Cook

Richard Wurmbrand

#Flower Quotes #Feet Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Secrets have a way of making themselves felt, even before you know there's a secret.”

Source : Jean Ferris (2004). “Once Upon a Marigold”, p.261, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always find myself drawn inexorably back towards the chasm's edge, and there I shall walk until the day I finally fall into the abyss.”
“I think everybody works from a defensive position, for the most part, in the film industry.”
“The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.”
“The good news is that even minimal activity can significantly extend life.”
“I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand.”

Source : "Why Her And Not Me? Robert Draper on Amanda Lindhout's Kidnapping" by Robert Draper, www.elle.com. September 4, 2013.
“When you get divorced, all the truths that come out, you sit there and go, 'What the f**k was I doing? What was I doing believing that this person was invested in this way?' Which is a fantastically strong humiliation in the best sense. It can make somebody very bitter and very hard and closed off, but I find it does the opposite to me.”
“In reality, I don't think that many of the policies we've attempted to apply to deal with it are going to have any serious effect.”

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