"Thank heaven I don't inherit God from anybody! I am free to make mine up as I wish Him. He's kind and sympathetic and imaginative and forgiving and understanding - and He has a sense of humor."

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Source : Jean Webster (2004). “Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy”, p.59, Penguin

Jean Webster

#Heaven Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Forgiving Quotes

“The lesson, I suppose, is that none of us have much control over how we will be remembered. Every life is an amalgam, and it is impossible to know what moments, what foibles, what charms will come to define us once we're gone. All we can do is live our lives fully, be authentically ourselves, and trust that the right things about us, the best and most fitting things, will echo in the memories of us that endure.”

Source : "20 Questions Every Woman Should Ask Herself". www.oprah.com. April, 2014.
“When you step into an intersection of fields, disciplines, or cultures, you can combine existing concepts into a large number of extraordinary ideas.”

Source : Frans Johansson (2006). “The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us about Innovation”, p.2, Harvard Business Press
“Labor union members, especially white men, are the target group for Donald Trump. He's had a lot of success in getting their support. So, it's not at all clear that labor unions will be able to do as much as they once could to get their members to actually vote for the candidate the union itself supports.”
“Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.”
“Cease-fire is important, but it can last only for a very, very, very short time.”
“When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike. Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less. The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish.”
“And I was having too much fun to stop now.”
“Man to the last is but a froward child; So eager for the future, come what may, And to the present so insensible.”

Source : Samuel Rogers (1856). “Poetical works”, p.221

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