"To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means."

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Source : Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.17, Multnomah

Brennan Manning

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“But I'd far rather live without souls or morals than Parmesan.”

Source : Kate Quinn (2013). “The Serpent and the Pearl”, p.201, Penguin
“The world we want to transform has already been worked on by history and is largely hollow. We must nevertheless be inventive enough to change it and build a new world. Take care and do not forget ideas are also weapons.”

Source : Marcos (subcomandante.) (2004). “Ya Basta!: Ten Years of the Zapatista Uprising”, p.502, AK Press
“My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.”
“Real joy is becoming exceedingly rare among artists of any kind. And I have an idea that those who can and do communicate it are always people who have had a hard time. Then the joy has no smugness or self-righteousness in it, is inclusive not exclusive, and comes close to prayer.”
“Motivation begins with discomfort- with needs that are unfulfilled.”

Source : Susan Maushart (2011). “The Winter of Our Disconnect: How Three Totally Wired Teenagers (and a Mother Who Slept with Her iPhone)Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Lived to Tell the Tale”, p.51, Penguin
“Eventually, in the editing movie you have to look at it as if you hadn't written it. So, you have to be a bit more brutal.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“Any bailout of a private company is a bad decision by our federal government. Private companies have the right to succeed, but they also should have the right to fail.”
“While Admiral Neffenger is an impressive man, it is naive and dangerous to pretend installing one director can heal what ails TSA, the Department of Homeland Security needs to admit that it has a crisis of bureaucratic complacency - lacking an overarching vision and coherent measures of success and failure.”

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