"I am what I am and cannot be otherwise because of the shadows."

-- Loren Eiseley

#Shadow Quotes #I Am What I Am Quotes

“Sit all together in meditation. Become peacefully calm and quiet, without motion, without stillness, without birth, without destruction, without coming or going, with no judgments of right or wrong, neither staying nor going. This, then, is the Great Way.”
“I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses.”
“Let brisker youths their active nerves prepare Fit their light silken wings and skim the buxom air.”

Source : Richard Owen Cambridge (1751). “The Scribleriad: An Heroic Poem. In Six Books”
“The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.”

Source : Quoted in Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979)
“As long as I am content to know that He is infinitely greater than I, and that I cannot know Him unless He shows himself to me, I will have Peace, and He will be near me and in me, and I will rest in Him.”
“I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always wanted to be a pilot. And if you're going to fly airplanes, the best place to be is the Air Force.”
“Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.”
“One day of praying and six days of fun, the odds against going to heaven are six to one.”

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