"We all have to do things in this life that we don't like."

-- Marlene van Niekerk

#This Life Quotes

“As I lay stretched upon the beach of Nice, I began to feel hatred for birds which flew back and forth across my blue sky, cloudless sky, because they tried to bore holes in my greatest and most beautiful work.”

Source : Yves Klein (2000). “Yves Klein: Long Live the Immaterial”, Delano Greenridge Editions
“Good roles are hard to come by, and whether they're a few lines or a lead, you snap 'em up when they come along”
“There is one class of mind that loves to lean on rules and definitions, and another that discards them as far as possible. A faddist will generally ask for a definition of faddism, and one who is not a faddist will be impatient of being asked to give one.”
“A good marriage is loving someone in a lot of different circumstances. Respect for them and their views and ideas and the life that they're leading with you. Shared values and interests. A good sense of humour. And a little volatility along the way.”
“The secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.”
“Treating everyone she met like family, and burying needless critism of others so deep beneath the soil of everyday living that only kindness ever saw the light.”

Source : Jason F. Wright (2006). “Christmas Jars”
“The fact that I have a little ten-megapixel camera with me all the time, is way better than having the greatest camera in the world sitting at home on a desk instead of on my shoulder.”

Source : Source: theonlinephotographer.typepad.com
“By raising Christ from death, God as the supreme Judge set his seal to the absolute perfection and completeness of his atoning work. The resurrection is a public announcement to the world that the penalty of death has been borne by Christ to its bitter end and that in consequence the dominion of guilt has been broken, the curse annihilated forever more.”

Source : Geerhardus Vos (2015). “Grace and Glory”, p.94, Booklassic

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