"The question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a persons needs."

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Source : Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.62, Hachette UK

Jostein Gaarder

#Needs Quotes #Relation Quotes #Persons Quotes

“Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.”
“We're always bombarded with images from magazines of what looks cool and sexy.”
“The practice of the Christian life consists of the discernment of (the seeing and hearing), and the reliance upon (the reckless and uncalculating dependence), and the celebration (the ready and spontaneous enjoyment) of the presence of the Word of God in the common life of the world.”

Source : William Stringfellow (1999). “A Private and Public Faith”, p.56, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.”

Source : "Interrogating Brandi Carlile: I Knew ‘That Wasn’t Me’ Was Our‘Let It Be.’". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2012.
“For Drake is no longer in his hammock, children, nor is Arthur somewhere sleeping, and you may not lie idly expecting the second coming of anybody now, because the world is yours and it is up to you.”

Source : Susan Cooper (1977). “Silver on the Tree”, Simon & Schuster
“Some people say they love animals and yet harm them nonetheless; I'm glad those people don't love me.”

Source : Marc Bekoff (2010). “The Animal Manifesto: Six Reasons for Expanding Our Compassion Footprint”, p.172, New World Library
“If you asked Rahul Dravid to walk on glass for his team, his only question would be - 'How many miles?' That just shows you how great a man he is.”
“I am so far from thinking the maxims of Confucius and Jesus Christ to differ, that I think the plain and simple maxims of the former, will help to illustrate the more obscure ones of the latter, accommodated to the then way of speaking.”

Source : Matthew Tindal (1730). “Christianity as Old as the Creation: Or, The Gospel, a Republication of the Religion of Nature. |. ...”, p.342

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