"The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side."

-- Theodore J. Forstmann

#Letting Go Quotes #Hands Quotes #Government Quotes

“You [meaning mothers] said good-bye a little every day -- from the minute they left your body until they left your home.”
“To be conscious of being poor while praying for riches is to be rewarded with that which you are conscious of being, namely, poverty. Prayers to be successful must be claimed and appropriated. Assume the positive consciousness of the thing desired.”
“Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there.”
“The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.”

Source : Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator”, p.160, Penguin
“Communicating with God is the most extraordinary experience imaginable, yet at the same time it's the most natural one of all, because God is present in us at all times. Omniscient, omnipotent, personal-and loving us without conditions. We are connected as One through our divine link with God.”

Source : Eben Alexander (2012). “Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife”, p.161, Simon and Schuster
“On the other side, I do think thereâ€™s a melding in there. There are situations -- Iâ€™ve done contracts for Carlos Gonzalez, or just recently I did one for Elvis Andrus -- to where there is a melding of the clubâ€™s wants and the playerâ€™s wants where you do things in advance of free agency.”
“I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.”
“While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.”

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