Brennan Manning Quotes
The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust.
Brennan Manning
Quotes to Explore
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To change what you get, you must change who you are.
Vernon Howard
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
Karin Slaughter
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I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
Fernando Botero
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My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.
Omar Dorsey
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I still take advice from my mum on what clothes look good on me. I used to listen to her a lot more, but I've started to choose my own things from time to time.
Rafael Nadal
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Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
Octavio Paz
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The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever.
Hans Zimmer
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So many have come to me that I might serve them, leaving me no time to think of myself. However, I assure you that I do feel deep down within me, God be praised.
Saint Francis de Sales
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I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
Isaac Asimov
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A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.
Pat Riley
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Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
Oscar Wilde
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Only that position can impart dignity in which we do not appear as servile tools but rather create independently within our circle.
Karl Marx
