"Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that one knows about the works and ways and purposes and promises of God."

-- J. I. Packer

#Spiritual Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Dwelling Quotes

“There's a widespread notion that children are open, that the truth about their inner selves just seeps out of them. That's all wrong. No one is more covert than a child, and no one has a greater need to be that way. It's a response to a world that's always using a can opener to open them up to see what's inside, wondering whether it ought to be replaced with a more useful sort of preserves.”
“In the past, we've always come up with new jobs for humans to do and so it's always benefitted us, technological progress, but now we're not really creating enough new jobs to replace the jobs that are being automated.”

Source : Source: www.denofgeek.com
“I was a horrible student! It just sort of evolved as I started playing. I guess I became a master of it when I declared myself a wordsmith or a... word-play guy. As soon as I declared it and started that affirmation, I just became it.”
“What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason”

Source : Robert Harris (2003). “Pompeii”, Vintage
“An actor should never be larger than the film he's in.”
“Fantasy isn't something you run out of.”
“There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.”
“No matter what grief or loss takes place, most of life flows on all around us, as though nothing's changed. At some point in our sorrow, we each make a choice to sink or swim. There's no alternative.”

Source : Tammara Webber (2013). “Here Without You”, p.123, Tammara Webber

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