"It makes a great difference in our feeling towards others if their needs and their joys are on our lips in prayer; as also it makes a vast difference in their feelings towards us if they know that we are in the habit of praying for them."

-- Charles Brent

#Prayer Quotes #Differences Quotes #Joy Quotes

“I didn't fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 08, 2011
“The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.”
“Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit.”
“I think all of us, looking back on our careers and our lives, there'll probably be a "road not taken" that we'll regret and mourn. Certainly, artists will always feel that way, especially when the path taken was more commercial than the one not taken.”

Source : "Being Nina Simone". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 25, 2015.
“Never sleep in a small tent with your nemesis.”
“When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave us birth, will respond.”

Source : "The Invisible Pyramid".
“Never say thereâ€™s no hope. Hope disappears only when you say thereâ€™s no hope.”
“Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation.”

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