"I worry about fast forgivers. They tend to forgive quickly in order to avoid their pain. Or they forgive fast in order to get an advantage over the people they forgive. And their instant forgiving only makes things worse... People who have been wronged badly and wounded deeply should give themselves time and space before they forgive... There is a right moment to forgive. We cannot predict it in advance; we can only get ourselves ready for it when it arrives... Don't do it quickly, but don't wait too long."

-- Lewis B. Smedes

#Forgiveness Quotes #Pain Quotes #Long Quotes

“The Germans only have one player under 22, and he's 23!”
“If people cannot be flawed in fiction there's no place left for us to be human.”

Source : "How we all lose" by Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. October 26, 2012.
“Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations to intrude into the lives of innocent Americans. When government uses the telephone companies to create massive databases of all our phone calls it has gone too far.”
“The unexpected may annoy us, but may also wake us up.”

Source : Scott Russell Sanders (1997). “Writing from the Center”, p.14, Indiana University Press
“Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking.”

Source : Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.31, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.”

Source : "The Billboard book of rock arranging". Book by Mark Michaels, May 1, 1990.
“Men do their hardest work at the bottom of the ladder, not at the top.”
“When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life.”

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