"Thy way, not mine, O Lord, however dark it be; lead me by thine own hand; choose out the path for me."

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Source : Horatius Bonar (1866). “Hymns of Faith and Hope. First series”, p.174

Horatius Bonar

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“Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain.”

Source : T.C. Boyle (2001). “A Friend of the Earth”, p.21, Penguin
“Like madness is the glory of life.”
“To some people, surrender may have negative connotations, implying defeat, giving up, failing to rise to the challenges of life, becoming lethargic, and so on. True surrender, however, is something entirely different. It does not mean to passively put up with whatever situation you find yourself in and to do nothing about it. Nor does it mean to cease making plans or initiating positive action. Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life.”
“A selfless act out of even the purest desire to do for others, will be selfish in the satisfaction and happiness it brings to one doing it.”
“Probably the best thing that happened to me was going nuts. Nobody knew who I was until that happened.”
“Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.”
“Once you begin reviewing judgment calls, which in basketball there are many, you put yourself on a very slippery slope in terms of what could be reviewed, and ultimately the number of reviews that could take place that would make it unwieldy.”
“Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy.”

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