"Do this and you will be an apostle, a fulfiller of what the Lord chose you for, an accomplisher of your calling as messenger. When at first you succeed in all this, then perhaps the Lord will appoint you as a special ambassador-to save others after you have saved yourself; and to help those who are tempted, after you yourself pass through all temptations, and through all experiences in good and evil."

-- Theophan the Recluse

#Humility Quotes #Evil Quotes #Temptation Quotes

“Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.”
“Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer.”
“I can't imagine how Afghanistan's fall isn't going to be ten times faster than Iraq's.”
“I know a lot of great musicians that don't know they're even great, because mangers try and make them feel belittled like they're not worth a crap.”

Source : "Exclusive Interview: Jim “Dandy” Mangrum Southern Rock Pioneer with Black Oak Arkansas". Interview with Ray Shasho, www.classicrockhereandnow.com. December 5, 2012.
“I'm never trying to be commercial or accessible, or saying "let's do this weird stuff, but at the same time we gotta do this safe stuff".”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.”
“As a performer, I don't like to play the same thing over and over. I like to play it and let it go and move on. That's also why television hasn't really been something that I've done.”
“Perhaps I should say that in general there are three solutions to such a situation. I mean not only in Holland, but everywhere where there are minority groups: in America, in Vietnam with the Chinese. Everywhere there is the same problem. But there are fundamentally three, actually only two possible solutions. A possible solution is that the despised minority is able to establish its own state somewhere else. The other solution is a higher or lesser degree of assimilation. And the third possibility, which is not a solution at all, is the permanence of the tension and conflict over time.”

Source : Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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