"I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth."

-- Jon Krakauer

#Giving Quotes #Fairness Quotes #Fame Quotes

“Somhow those Ten Men -- at the time they were called Recruiters, of course -- discovered that Constance had been at the library. Most likely one of their informants saw her come out, because it was on that very day that the brutes showed up and threatened the librarians. Who told them nothing, incidentally.' 'The same thing happened in Holland,' Kate reflected. 'You'd think these guys would learn their lesson -- librarians know how to keep quiet.' 'It helps to ask politely,' said Mr. Benedict”
“The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world”
“If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.”

Source : Lance Armstrong (2010). “Every Second Counts”, p.66, Random House
“Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare...”

Source : Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.47, Penguin
“You can't measure dreams when you're a dreamer, because most often the caliber is unattainable.”
“Hope is necessary in every condition.”
“True peace is not a balance of opposing forces, and it is not â€˜a lovely faÃ§adeâ€™ simply covering conflicts and divisions. Rather, peace calls for daily commitment -- it's homemade -- starting from God's gift, from the grace which he has given us in Jesus Christ.”
“The willingness to turn to the Savior, the opportunity of going to sacrament service on a Sunday, and really participating in the ordinance of the sacrament... listening to the prayers, partaking of those sacred emblems. Those are opportunities that really help us to come within the ambit of the Savior's Atonement.”

Source : Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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