"Inside the peach, there is a stone."

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Margaret Atwood

#Peaches Quotes #Stones Quotes

“A person God himself deems as wise is one who not only hears His voice, but immediately begins to act upon His instruction.”

Source : Erwin Raphael McManus (2006). “Stand Against the Wind: Fuel for the Revolution of Your Soul”, p.19, Thomas Nelson
“To me, form is not about scoring runs but how you feel about your game. Sometimes the runs are not there, but you know you are batting well, and that is good form for me.”
“Be good. Be kind to each other. And if there's somebody you love, tell them. The world always needs more love.”

Source : Mira Grant (2011). “Deadline: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.59, Hachette UK
“And in that narrow cockpit I wept, as I shall never weep again, when I felt the concrete brush against his wheels and, with a great sweep of the wrist, dropped him on the ground like a cut flower. As always, I carefully cleared the engine, turned off all the switches one by one, removed the straps, the wires and the tubes which tied me to him, like a child to his mother. And when my waiting pilots and my mechanics saw my downcast eyes and my shaking shoulders, they understood and returned to the dispersal in silence.”
“In my heart I mean well. But if you help me to grow, then what I have in my heart will begin to show.”
“Being in the Spice Girls was an insane experience.”
“Each of us will one day be judged by our standard of life, not by our standard of living; by our measure of giving, not by our measure of wealth; by our simple goodness, not by our seeming greatness.”
“What does the earth look like in the places where people commit atrocities? Is there a bad smell, a genius loci, something about the landscape that might incriminate?”

Source : Robert D. Kaplan (2014). “Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History”, p.51, Picador

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