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«Love is like a faucet (it turns off and on).»
Author: Billie Holiday | Keywords: faucet, off and on
«Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep»
«A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.»
«Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.»
«When you have come to the edge Of all light that you know And are about to drop off into the darkness Of the unknown, Faith is knowing One of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or You will be taught to fly»
«What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.»
«It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.»
«There are four types of persons, the ?dead?, who deny the Lord and declare that they alone exist, independent and self-directed, the ?sick?, who call upon the Lord when some calamity befalls them or when they feel temporarily deserted by the unusual source of succor, the ?dull?, who know that God is the eternal companion and watchman, but who remember it only off and on when the idea is potent and powerful, and lastly the ?healthy?, who have steady belief in the Lord and who live in His Comforting Creative Presence always?.»