"My prayer for the new year is that I may have the courage and the stamina to let Life happen to me, to accept its joys and successes, and to take in stride the learning that stretches us and the growing pains. Perhaps, to put it simply, my wish for the New Year is: may we love more, live more, laugh more. And so may you!"

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Source : Jean Hersey (1964). “A Sense of Seasons”

Jean Hersey

#New Year Quotes #Prayer Quotes #Pain Quotes

“Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.”
“Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.”

Source : William Ames (1968). “The marrow of theology”
“I think being a Texan - we sort of have that extra fire in us as a breed. I just felt like from day one I had something to say and I wanted to make sure people heard me, and it's worked.”
“It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance to find out the person you really are, not the person you thought you were.”

Source : Interview with Charles Flowers, bookpage.com. October 1999.
“We’re in the business of luxury and there’s nothing more luxurious than being good to people, being respectful of them.”
“If you feel that the Chief of the General Staff talks only rubbish, my place is not here. Better to give me a command at the front where I can be of better use!”

Source : "Field Marshal Von Manstein, a Portrait: The Janus Head" by Marcel Stein, Gwyneth Fairbank, (p. 164), 2007.
“Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.”
“War scenes are less difficult than love scenes.”

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