"No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand."

-- Baruch Spinoza

#Laughing Quotes #Lament Quotes

“If you have sinned, do not lie down without repentance; for the want of repentance after one has sinned makes the heart yet harder and harder.”
“You donâ€™t need to be a completely complete human right now â€¦ Thatâ€™s what makes you human.”
“Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that.”
“For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you are a wise man, Van Helsing.”
“I don't think of myself as a critic or teacher either, but simply - and at the obvious risk of disingenuousness - as someone who teaches, writes drama criticism (and other things) and feels that the American compulsion to take your identity from your profession, with its corollary of only one trade to a practitioner, may be a convenience to society but is burdensome and constricting to yourself.”
“I have come to see that our problem is that we don't know what happiness is. We confuse it with a life uncluttered by feelings of anxiety, rage, doubt, and sadness. But happiness is something entirely different. It's the ability to receive the pleasant without grasping and the unpleasant without condemning.”
“As I've grown older I've been more influenced by more meandering styles of guitar playing, whether it's Celtic or Ethiopian folk music or some kind of noisier jazz like Sonny Sharrock. In terms of songwriting, I don't know that I could even pin it down.”

Source : "Ted Leo and Ben Arthur Discuss Carly Simon, Joyce Carl Oates, and the Touring Grind". Interview with Ben Arthur, logger.believermag.com. June 26, 2016.
“One of the most meaningful things we can do as parents is teach our children the power of prayer, not just the routine of prayer.”

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