"You come to doing what you do by not being able to do something."

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Grace Paley

“As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.”
“Plus models have personal trainers and go to college.We're not obese, or lazy, or stupid.”
“I did not do anything wrong as a governor, even if you accept the verdict as it is, it doesn't indicate that.”
“We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of great courage. We enjoy and even thrill to godlike possibilities we see in ourselves in such peak moments. And yet we simultaneously shiver with weakness, awe, and fear before these very same possibilities.”
“Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. Forgiving means abandoning your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own coin.”
“I can't decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to induce stupidity in anyone who watches, or so brutally brilliant that it disarms all reason. What's the difference?”

Source : "One Small Step for Man, One Giant Leap for Autobots" by A.O. Scott, www.nytimes.com. June 28, 2011.
“It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.”
“The bottom line is pray. If youâ€™re tired, sick, emotionally overwhelmedâ€”pray. If youâ€™re on cloud nine and life seems perfectâ€”pray. If you lack directionâ€”pray. If you doubt that prayer makes any differenceâ€”pray. If the circumstances of your life are out of your controlâ€”pray. If the circumstances of your life seem well within youâ€™re your controlâ€”pray even harder. Whatever you doâ€”pray.”

Source : FaceBook post by Tony Evans from Dec 06, 2013

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