"Prayer, the basic exercise of the spirit, must be actively practiced in our private lives. The neglected soul of the human being must be made strong enough to assert itself once more. For if the power of prayer is again released and used in the lives of common men and women; if the spirit declares its aims clearly and boldly, there is yet hope that our prayers for a better world will be answered."

-- Alexis Carrel

#Strong Quotes #Prayer Quotes #Exercise Quotes

“The mythology of your culture hums in your ears so constantly that no one pays the slightest bit of attention to it. Of course man is conquering space and the atom and the deserts and the oceans and the elements. According to your mythology, this is what he was BORN to do.”
“The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident.”

Source : "The Unauthorized Biography of David Rockefeller", www.theeventchronicle.com. March 30, 2017.
“All life's a risk, that's what makes it interesting.”
“Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography.”

Source : "Correcting the Rumors" by Terry Richardson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 14, 2014.
“Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity, whether it be the presence of a copyist waiting for your work or the prodding of an impresario tearing his hair.”

Source : "Composers on Music". Book by Josiah Fisk and Jeff Nichols, 1997.
“Careful observers may foretell the hour (By sure prognostics) when to dread a show'r. While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o'er Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more.”
“The body moves naturally, automatically, unconsciously, without any personal intervention or awareness. But if we begin to use our faculty of reasoning, our actions become slow and hesitant.”
“I played with Joey Mullen back in Salt Lake City before he got called up to St. Louis. He was the first player ever to score 20 goals in the American League and 20 in the NHL. I've kept in contact with him and he's a great guy.”

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