"The next great step of mankind is to step into the nature of his own mind."

-- Stanley Kauffmann

#Mind Quotes #Next Quotes #Steps Quotes

“Forgiveness doesn't mean forgetting to remember, but remembering to forget.”

Source : Gary Inrig (2013). “Forgiveness: Discover the Power and Reality of Authentic Christian Forgiveness”, p.129, Discovery House
“When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have.”
“When a man makes a reverent face before a face that is no face - that is idol worship!”

Source : "Tales of the Hasidim : The Later Masters" by Martin Buber, translated by Olga Marx, 1948.
“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”

Source : "The Little Prince". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, April, 1943.
“In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs.”
“Let's try to find ten good things to say about Albert Belle: 10. So far as we know, he's never killed anyone. 9. He is handsome, and built like a God. 8. He played every game. 7. He has never appeared on the Jerry Springer Show. 6. He was an underrated base runner who was rarely caught stealing. 5. He hasn't been arrested in several years. 4. He is very bright. 3. He works hard. 2. He has never spoken favorably about Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, or any other foreign madman. 1. The man could hit.”

Source : Bill James (2001). “The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract”
“London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.”
“Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love.”

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