"... accepting and feeling sympathy and love is not so healing as giving it."

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Source : Ruth Draper, Dorothy Warren (1999). “The Letters of Ruth Draper: Self-portrait of an Actress, 1920-1956”, p.147, SIU Press

Ruth Draper

#Healing Quotes #Love Is Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Baseball is an individual game, but it should never be a personal game.”
“No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life.”

Source : Richard Aldington, Alister Kershaw (1970). “Richard Aldington: selected critical writings, 1928-1960”, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
“Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.”
“There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.”

Source : Bruce Schneier (1996). “Applied cryptography: protocols, algorithms, and source code in C”, John Wiley & Sons Inc
“God created us to be worshipers because it is right that he be known, loved and worshiped. This isn't because he is needy and wishes someone would tell him how special he is. No, it's because he is perfect and the worship of his perfection is holiness in action.”

Source : Elyse M. Fitzpatrick “Because He Loves Me: How Christ Transforms Our Daily Life”, Crossway
“We scientists have fantasies of being uniquely qualified to make great discoveries. Alas, reality is cruel: most of us are replaceable. For the vast majority of scientific contributions, if scientist X hadn't achieved it that year, scientist Y would have achieved the same result or something very similar soon thereafter.”
“As a Buddhist, I view death as a normal process, a reality that I accept will occur as long as I remain in this earthly existence. Knowing that I cannot escape it, I see no point in worrying about it. I tend to think of death as being like changing your clothes when they are old and worn out, rather than as some final end. Yet death is unpredictable: We do not know when or how it will take place. So it is only sensible to take certain precautions before it actually happens.”
“There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, thatâ€™s all!”

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