"The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly or mean."

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Kevin DeYoung

#Thanksgiving Quotes #Gratitude Quotes #Mean Quotes

“My own belief is that being gay is a regularly occurring nonpathological minority variant in the human condition, and that an appropriate analogy is left-handedness, which also, as it happens, used to be regarded as some sort of defect in a normatively right-handed humanity.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
“I think most of us, as writers, have had experiences where you get edited and it doesn't feel like your voice at all. And so it's been nice to go through the experience of having a lot wind up on the cutting-room floor, and yet still feel that your voice is being - not purified, but made more yourself. I think that's a very rare thing.”
“Too often, we get attention and sympathy by being a victim. If we're invested in someone being our villain, we must love being the victim. We have to let go of both characters in the story.”

Source : Regina Brett (2010). “Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness”, p.68, Hachette UK
“I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang.”
“Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will.”
“I've worn stilettos since I was 12, so I have abused my feet to the point of no return.”
“Faith is reacting positively to a negative situation.”

Source : Robert H. Schuller (1993). “Robert H Schuller: The Inspirational Writings : Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do/Tough Minded Faith for Tender Hearted People”, Bbs Publishing Corporation
“The sequoias belong to the silences of the milleniums. Many of them have seen a hundred human generations rise, give off their little clamors and perish. They seem indeed to be forms of immortality standing here amoing the transitory shapes of time.”

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