"The nation doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are."

-- Edith Stein

#Needs Quotes #Catholicism Quotes

“You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.”
“If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.”
“The fact of playing an instrument and singing... that I can try to make my dream of singing and becoming a professional musician come true is linked probably to the fact that I traveled a lot, which gave me an open mind and an ability to push my limits.”
“Bypass surgery, angioplasty,and even diagnostic angiograms are so over used that, in my opinion, it constitutes criminal behaviour by the cardiologists and surgeons involved. Well controlled scientific studies have shown bypass surgery simply doesn't work, except to relieve severe chest pain. Those who have the surgery didn't even have a trend of longevity benefit compared to those treated without it. Yet, each year hundreds of thousands cave into the obvious fear tactics used by agressive heart doctors and submit to the bypass operation”
“Therapy really did prepare me to become an empathic songwriter. As far as advice goes, it's a matter of self understanding first.”
“Anyway, solitary people interest me. There are so many different ways of being solitary.' 'I know just what you mean,' said X. 'I know exactly what you're going to say. Different kinds of solitude. Enforced solitude and voluntary solitude.' 'Quite,' said Viktoria. 'There's no need to go into it further. But when people understand one another without speaking, it can often leave them with very little to talk about, don't you think?”
“Eventually the man comes to see that he has a mind, and that his mind is like a fist, wrapped tightly around a single thought. He cannot open the fist to look at the thought, for fear that it will fly away, but he knows that it is very important and that he must hang on to it, no matter what the cost.”

Source : Ben Loory (2011). “Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day”, p.130, Penguin
“...It is a proud privilege to be a soldier â€“ a good soldier â€¦ [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self confidence born of demonstrated ability.”

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