"Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind"

-- Meshell Ndegeocello

#Healing Quotes #Mind Quotes #Her Beauty Quotes

“I so wanted out of this conversation, but it was like a car accident: Once you started spinning, you could only wait and see what you hit.”
“Still I made one excuse after another, and Jesus would answer, 'Go, and I will be with you'... Then Jesus said again, 'Go, and I will be with you.' I cried, 'Lord, I will go. Where shall I go?' And Jesus said, 'Go here, go there, wherever souls are perishing.' Praise the Lord for his wonderful goodness in revealing his word and will in such a wonderful way, to such a poor weak worm of the dust. I saw more in that vision than I could have learned in years of hard study. Praise His Holy Name. I saw that I must not depend on anything that I could do, but to look to Him for strength and wisdom.”
“Makes sense to me. Sometimes starting over is exactly what a person needs. And I think it's admirable. A lot of people don't have the courage it takes to do something like that.”
“Do you see the Field of Mars, where I walked next to my bride in her white wedding dress, with red sandals in her hands, when we were kids?â€ â€œI see it well.â€ â€œWe spent all our days afraid it was too good to be true, Tatiana,â€ said Alexander. â€œWe were always afraid all we had was a borrowed five minutes from now.â€ Her hands went on his face. â€œThatâ€™s all any of us ever has, my love,â€ she said. â€œAnd it all flies by.â€ â€œYes,â€ he said, looking at her, at the desert, covered coral and yellow with golden eye and globe mallow. â€œBut what a five minutes itâ€™s been.”
“I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort”

Source : Clarice Lispector (1986). “The Hour of the Star”, p.11, New Directions Publishing
“I don't care if I get kicked out of every rich kid club on the planet. I will never sacrifice my integrity as a DJ...ever.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 16, 2012
“...Our losses...have reached an intolerable level. The enemy air force played a decisive role in inflicting these high losses.”
“If you have God's presence, you have favor. One minute of God's presence can accomplish more than 20 years of your striving.”

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