"I view the experiences that I have had - both the tough ones and the pleasant ones - as gifts."

-- Deval Patrick

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“There is something about yourself that you don't know...”
“Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.”
“Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance and the roughness of spurious force? Who has better known how to breathe anguish and dread into the purest and most exquisite forms?”

Source : Marie Anne de Bovet, Charles Gounod (1891). “Charles Gounod: His Life and His Works”
“Growth comes from God, to those with surrendered, yielded hearts.”

Source : Mary E DeMuth (2012). “Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus”, p.30, Thomas Nelson
“Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded as descended from that tribe. That's what it says in the dictionary; but you and I know what a Jew is - One Who Killed Our Lord. And although there should be a statute of limitations for that crime, it seems that those who neither have the actions nor the gait of Christians, pagan or not, will bust us out, unrelenting dues, for another deuce.”
“I am someone who proudly and humbly affirms that love is the mystery-of-mysteries, and that nothing measurable matters 'a very good God damn'; that 'an artist, a man, a failure' is no mere whenfully accreting mechanism, but a givingly eternal complexity-neither some soulless and heartless ultrapredatory infra-animal nor any understandingly knowing and believing and thinking automaton, but a naturally and miraculously whole human being-a feelingly illimitable individual; whose only happiness is to transcend himself, whose every agony is to grow.”
“On a very technical level, I am a geek who is interested in the intricacy of rhythm playing, so I like comparing and working out its details.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Possible is more a matter of attitude, A matter of decision, to choose Among the impossible possibilities, When one sound opportunity Becomes a possible solution.”

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