"Peace is the fruit of love, a love that is also justice. But to grow in love requires work -- hard work. And it can bring pain because it implies loss -- loss of the certitudes, comforts, and hurts that shelter and define us."

-- Jean Vanier

#Hurt Quotes #Peace Quotes #Pain Quotes

“Girls are crazy and mean. They don't fight fair.”

Source : Suzanne Vega (1999). “The passionate eye: the collected writing of Suzanne Vega”, Avon Books
“That's what a story must feel like to me. It's not, "I want to write about a gravedigger." But you're walking along and - boop! shovel. "Ok, what does one do with a shovel? Digs a hole. Why? I don't know yet. Dig the hole! Oh, look a body."”
“The first requisite of stewardship is to give ourselves to God. Thus, a logical recognition of God's absolute ownership should follow.”

Source : Stephen F. Olford (1972). “The Grace of Giving: A Biblical Study of Christian Stewardship”, p.12, Kregel Publications
“The greatest miracle of all, the human being.”
“Of course you are. The tributes were necessary to the Games, too. Until they weren't," I say. "And then we were very disposable - right, Plutarch?”
“May the God of your choice bless you.”

Source : Kinky Friedman (2007). “You Can Lead a Politician to Water, But You Can't Make Him Think: Ten Commandments for Texas Politics”, p.28, Simon and Schuster
“We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.”
“I honestly and truly love and believe in what I'm making, and it's not a joke, whereas some people would take a singer-songwriter sitting behind an acoustic guitar as sincere.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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