"To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread."

-- James A. Baldwin

#Respect Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Effort Quotes

“We're gonna promote freedom. Usher in democratic values and ideals. And fight terror-loving terrorists.”
“The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost well over three times the money she donated to the making of the film 'The Palestinian.' Unsurprisingly this always goes unmentioned in the press.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If you and I shall, like the believing shepherds, watch and long for His appearing, one day we, too, shall hear a music grander and sweeter even than the song of angels, when the great Composer shall transpose all the strains of earth from the minor into the major, when the wail of nature shall give way to the glad harmony of the everlasting jubilee.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 555, 1895.
“As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality.”
“You are what you are. It is my opinion that trouble in the world comes from people who do not know what they are, and pretend to be something they're not.”

Source : Lillian Hellman (1943). “The North Star: A Motion Picture about Some Russian People”
“I'm doing this for my family and my country.”
“The biblical writers didn't need to say everything; they could assume some things. They didn't anticipate a day when even Jews and Christians would fall under influences of non-biblical religions, philosophies, and worldviews, to the extent that is now the case in our pluralistic culture and society.”

Source : Source: www.biblegateway.com
“Our message of the day is service does not need a title.”

Source : "Carl Lewis quits the race" by Tim Mak, www.politico.com. September 23, 2011.

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