"There were only a few shepherds at the first Bethlehem. The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than the high priests in Jerusalem. And it is the same today."

-- Thomas Merton

#Christmas Quotes #Jerusalem Quotes #Today Quotes

“You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.”
“I'll do anything for $50. People are always trying to get me to do dumb things. The possibilities are endless.”
“White people who are doing this work need to make their stories known to serve as guides for others.”

Source : Beverly Daniel Tatum (1997). “"Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" and Other Conversations about Race”, Basic Books
“We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own conceptâ€”our own selvesâ€”that we love.”

Source : Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.251, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“The end and aim of all education is the development of character.”

Source : Francis Wayland Parker, Lelia E. Patridge (1883). “Notes of Talks on Teaching”
“If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one”
“The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.”
“Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy.”

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