"and how we are all preparing for that abrupt waking, and that calling, and that moment we have to say yes, except it will not come so grandly, so Biblically, but more subtly and intimately in the face of the one you know you have to love"

-- David Whyte

#Faith Quotes #Calling Quotes #Faces Quotes

“The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.”

Source : George Bancroft (1855). “Literary and historical miscellanies”, p.421
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“Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.”

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