"The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly believe that torment and anguish are our â€˜naturalâ€™ condition."

-- Bell Hooks

#Believe Quotes #Love Is Quotes #Our Society Quotes

“When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit.”
“The modern city hardly knows a pure darkness or true silence anymore, nor does it know the effect of a single small light or that of a lonely distant shout.”
“The French are not normally a Nordic Skiing Nation.”
“I think about legacy a lot, hopefully at the end of the day they say I was a good bluesman. That's all I want.”

Source : "A Bluesman Looks Back, Through a Few Old Songs" by Andy Langer, www.nytimes.com. February 8, 2014.
“That thorny path, those stormy skies, have drawn our spirits nearer; and rendered us, by sorrow's ties, each to the other dearer.”

Source : Bernard Barton, Lucy Barton (1853). “Poems and Letters by Bernard Barton: With a Memoir”, p.160
“I became a great runner because if you're a kid in Leeds and your name is Sebastian you've got to become a great runner.”
“Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in our affections.”
“One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.”

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