"Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit."

-- Nana Mouskouri

#Mouths Quotes #Attention Quotes #Habit Quotes

“We don't get to decide who God is.”
“I'm 37 and I was told recently I was too old to play the lover of a man who was 55. It was astonishing to me. It made me feel bad, and then it made feel angry, and then it made me laugh.”

Source : "Maggie Gyllenhaal to Star in Sara Colangelo’s 'The Kindergarten Teacher'" by Laura Berger, blog.womenandhollywood.com. May 31, 2017.
“I don't need to be asking for money for local museums and other projects just to make me look good back home.”
“Those who stand in the way of virtue shall fail!”
“I have always thought that librarians are a little bit like doctors, travel agents and professors all rolled into one. We all know that a great story can lift spirits, take you anywhere in the world you want to go and in any time period to boot, and the lessons you learn from a good book can buoy your own convictions and even change your life.”
“I don't like to look typical.”
“Palestine was the West Point and Annapolis for the world. In that little country God was training up a people out of whom, when the fullness of the time should come, His gospel cadets should emerge, fitted by all the training of all their national history for going out among the heathen and proclaiming the unsearchable riches of Christ.”

Source : William Mackergo Taylor (1879). “Moses the Law-giver”
“Marriage: If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently. You shield it and protect it. You never abuse it. You don't expose it to the elements. You don't make it common or ordinary. If it ever becomes tarnished, you lovingly polish it until it gleams like new. It becomes special because you have made it so, and it grows more beautiful and precious as time goes by.”

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