"Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed."

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Reinhold Niebuhr

#Love Quotes #Power Quotes #Goodness Quotes

“The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.”
“Look,' I said, struggling to keep up, 'I just wanna make one thing absolutely clear. I don't believe in guns. I just want peace. Okay?' Alessandro stopped in the middle of the corridor, took out the gun, and wrapped my hand around it before I realized what he was doing. 'Can you feel that? That's a gun. It exists. And there are a lot of people out there who do believe in it. So, excused me for taking care of them so you can have your peace.”
“That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.”

Source : "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" l. 34 (1798)
“Part of the inner world of everyone is this sense of emptiness, unease, incompleteness, and I believe that this in itself is a word from God, that this is the sound that Godâ€™s voice makes in a world that has explained him away. In such a world, I suspect that maybe God speaks to us most clearly through his silence, his absence, so that we know him best through our missing him.”
“Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.”
“Me and Marcus Allen went over to see Nicole We heard a knock at the door, must have been Ron Gold' Jumped behind the door, put the orgy on hold Killed em both and smeared blood on the white Bronco”
“What did I get from Simon? An education - the thing my parents always wanted me to have.”

Source : "My harsh lesson in love and life" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. June 06, 2009.
“The art of making art, is putting it together....”

Source : "Sunday in the Park with George". Musical by Stephen Sondheim, May 2, 1984.

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