"Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer."

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Source : Nat Turner “The Confessions of Nat Turner”, Lulu.com

Nat Turner

#Prayer Quotes #Mixing Quotes #Fasting Quotes

“That was on a night in August. Dad Lewis died early that morning and the young girl Alice from next door got lost in the evening and then found her way home in the dark by the streetlights of town and so returned to the people who loved her. And in the fall the days turned cold and the leaves dropped off the trees and in the winter the wind blew from the mountains and out on the high plains of Holt County there were overnight storms and three-day blizzards.”

Source : Kent Haruf (2013). “Benediction”, p.198, Pan Macmillan
“Children, temples are places where, at least for a short while, the remembrance of God is kindled in our hearts which otherwise are totally immersed in worldly transactions.”
“The more people you run into, the greater your exposure, the easier it is to understand and empathize with other people. So if you are living in a much smaller ecosystem, it's probably easier to have simpler feelings.”

Source : "James Scott’s Violent Landscape". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2014.
“Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of.”

Source : "The Farming of Bones". Book by Edwidge Danticat, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 1998.
“I've always considered movies evil; the day that cinema was invented was a black day for mankind.”
“Boxing is not about your feelings. It's about performance.”
“There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language.”
“If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time.”

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