"Alone, human beings can feel hunger. Alone, we can feel cold. Alone, we can feel pain. To feel poor, however, is something we do only in comparison to others."

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Source : Eric Greitens (2011). “The Heart and the Fist: The education of a humanitarian, the making of a Navy SEAL”, p.92, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Eric Greitens

#Pain Quotes #Cold Quotes #Hunger Quotes

“Too many christians have been chargeable with... confounding the Logos of Plato with that of John , and making of it a second person in the trinity, than which no two things can be more different.”

Source : Joseph Priestley (1782). “An History of the Corruption of Christianity”, p.462
“Faith takes us to deep places, to the ruptures in our self-confidence and our lives. Do not settle for spiritual comfort all the time...Darkness is divine also. Faith is not about positive thinking so much as about what kicks in when we are weak, sick, and short of self-confidence. The via positiva never stands alone. The via negativa is always with us on our faith journey as well.”
“I wanted to be a rock star.”
“We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.”
“I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony.”

Source : Jenny Colgan (2011). “Meet Me At The Cupcake Café”, p.45, Hachette UK
“They say you cannot love two people equally at once,â€ she said. â€œAnd perhaps for others that is so. But you and Willâ€”you are not like two ordinary people, two people who might have been jealous of each other, or who would have imagined my love for one of them diminished by my love of the other. You merged your souls when you were both children. I could not have loved Will so much if I had not loved you as well. And I could not love you as I do if I had not loved Will as I did.”
“I have my mother's hips. The minute I eat it, it ends up on my hips.”
“I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor”

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