"We seldom stop to think how many people's lives are entwined with our own. It is a form of selfishness to imagine that every individual can operate on his own or can pull out of the general stream and not be missed."

-- Ivy Baker Priest

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Volunteer Quotes

“How the English love playing at being naughty boys!”
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”

Source : Samuel Adams' Speech delivered at the State House in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, August 1, 1776.
“Humiliation sets armies marching, empires falling, breaks hearts and minds and souls.”
“Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.”
“Jesus can heal anything, anywhere, anytime, and anybody. All you have to do is put your faith in Him.”
“Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.”
“It occurred to me, then, how nearly real life resembles the first rehearsal of a play. We are all of us stumbling through it, doing our best to say the proper lines and make the proper moves, but not quite comfortable yet in the parts we've been given. Still, like players who trust that -despite all evidence to the contrary- the whole mess will make sense eventually, we keep on going, hoping that somehow things will work out for the best.”

Source : Gary L. Blackwood (2003). “Shakespeare's Spy”, Dutton Childrens Books
“It is hard to have a true friend, and it is harder to be the one....”

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