"You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together. And then everything falls apart anyway."

-- David Levithan

#Fall Quotes #Effort Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Officially, the New Testament church at an early stage took seriously their responsibility for widows who lacked family or other resources. The office of deacon was instituted initially to address this pressing need.”

Source : Carolyn Custis James (2011). “The Gospel of Ruth: Loving God Enough to Break the Rules”, p.69, Harper Collins
“Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but feeling into perception.”
“One of the big problems in this field is that there's so much mystification that surrounds talk of the Shari'a, whether its saying that Islam is all about peace or whether its people saying that Islam is all about Jihad and all about suicide bombs. People will make statements which don't seem to be backed up by any sort of historical context.”
“Please. Donâ€™t switch off my mind by attempting to straighten me out. Listen and understand, and when you feel contempt donâ€™t express it, at least not verbally, at least not to me.”
“Shoot up everything except a school or a playground”
“Trust is something that happens within people only when it is created between people.”

Source : Chip R. Bell (2002). “Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning”, p.48, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
“I tried partying and going out, doing drugs and even dealing drugs to support my habit. I was hanging out with people from the underground who were doing illegal things all the time. I was experimenting with more and more drugs to the point where skateboarding was the last thing on my mind and my family was next to last.”

Source : Source: theindiespiritualist.com
“The Adderall Diaries is phenomenal. With jittery finesse and a reformed tweaker's eye for detail, Stephen Elliott captures the terrifying, hilarious, heart-strangling reality of a life whose scorched-earth physical and psycho-emotional dimensions no one could have invented - they absolutely had to be lived. By all rights, the author should either be dead or chewing his fingers in a bus station. Instead, he may well have written the memoir of an entire generation.”

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