"As long as we have our stories there is hope."

-- Henri Nouwen

#Long Quotes #Stories Quotes #There Is Hope Quotes

“I'm not scared to lose, I'm not scared to get knocked out. I'm scared of not going for it.”
“Before the whole [music] business was calibrated around the selling of records. I never could have imagined that live performance would become kind of a vortex of the business. It's such a seismic shift really.”
“I think my philosophy has evolved over the years. I started teaching almost 15 years ago and I've learned that how one student learns is obviously much different than how another student learns and so I've had to figure out how to get through to people honestly without hurting their feelings - which is no easy task just in the scope of being a human being, much less in the classroom, but which is something that is more important to me now than it was when I was 30 - and to show them a path to improving.”
“It is the first experience you ever had of reading a decent poem: 'Oh, somebody else is lonely, too!”

Source : Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.95, Wave Books
“Peace is something more than the absence of war, although some nations would be thankful for that alone today. A durable and equitable peace system requires equal development opportunities for all nations.”

Source : Willy Brandt (1971). “Peace: Writings and Speeches of the Nobel Peace Prize Winner, 1971”
“When a great life sets it leaves an afterglow on the sky far into the night.”
“There are no great enologists. Only good grapes”
“Just as the telescope and microscope show us that there is order and design in all the works of Godâ€™s hand, from the greatest planet down to the least insect, so does the Bible teach us that there is wisdom, order and design in all the events of our daily life. There is no such thing as 'chance', 'luck', or 'accident' in the Christian journey through this world. All is arranged and appointed by God: and all things are 'working together' for the believerâ€™s good.”

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