"Our waiting is not nothing. It is something -- a very big something -- because people tend to be shaped by whatever it is they are waiting for."

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Source : Barbara Brown Taylor (1995). “Gospel Medicine”, p.153, Cowley Publications

Barbara Brown Taylor

#People Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Bigs Quotes

“TRUTH: When a child believes he must win to be worthy, when young adults define themselves by what they do and not who they are, it is a kind of slavery a slave master would envy.”
“There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.”
“Information is recorded in vast interconnecting networks. Each idea or image has hundreds, perhaps thousands, of associations and is connected to numerous other points in the mental network.”

Source : Peter Russell (2013). “The Brain Book: Know Your Own Mind and How to Use it”, p.105, Routledge
“Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.”
“I grew up on a farm. We learned that there was a season to plant, a season to water, and season to harvest. The planting and watering could be laborious, but without those stages, there would never be a harvest.”
“Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.”
“When it comes to the Federal Reserve, there's an awful lot of books out there; in my library, I bet I've got 200 books if I've got any on the Federal Reserve. And we don't need any more books, we need action, and that's what the Liberty Dollar did, it gave people a way to take action. Our catch phrase was you want to "make money, do good, and have fun," and people really responded to that.”

Source : Source: www.lewrockwell.com
“It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound . . . Everything is mediated through the mind.”

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