"...there is no such thing as a charmed life, not for any of us, no matter where we live or how mindfully we attend to the tasks at hand. But there are charmed moments, all the time, in every life and in every day, if we are only awake enough to experience them when they come and wise enough to appreciate them."

-- Katrina Kenison

#Wise Quotes #Hands Quotes #Appreciate Quotes

“Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners.”
“President Obama insists hes a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.”
“Take heed of driving so hard after this world, as to hinder thyself and family from those duties towards God, which thou art by grace obliged to; as private prayer, reading the scriptures, and Christian conference. It is a base thing for men so to spend themselves and families after this world, as that they disengage their heart to God's worship.”
“Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.”
“Downloading a Tamagotchi egg onto my phone is possibly the loudest my biological clock has ever ticked.”
“Dancing for the length of time that I did, it centered me in such a way to be really in tune with my body, and I just feel like I'm physically able to do things because of my ballet background. Without ballet, I don't think I'd look graceful at all on screen.”
“Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.”

Source : "Quote Unquote : A Handbook of Quotations" by M. P. Singh, (p. 96), 2007.
“I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day.”

Source : James Redpath, John Brown (1860). “The Public Life of Capt. John Brown, with an Auto-biography of His Childhood and Youth”, p.351

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