"Love is the first ingredient in the relief of suffering."

-- Pio of Pietrelcina

#Compassion Quotes #Love Is Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences.”

Source : Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.5, Regnery Publishing
“I am in the Matrix and I just took the blue pill.”
“You're never going to get rid of the injuries. The injuries are going to happen as long as there's football, especially the way it's always been played. So that's something that won't go away. But I guess they're trying to do the best they can to reduce those injuries and really take guys out of harm's way as much as they can.”
“The atmosphere and the environment that you get on a Chris Nolan film that he and Emma [Tomson] create is one where you feel very safe and very confident and able to experiment with characters. It's a great place to be as an actor.”
“I never know which is worse: the sorrow when you hit the bird or the shame when you miss it.”

Source : "Downton Abbey (Christmas at Downton Abbey)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2010 - 2015.
“If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.”
“I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.”

Source : "An Interview With Congressman Tom Tancredo (R – CO)". Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 26, 2012.
“Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different. Men eat themselves up believing they have to be the thing they have been made. Children go crazy. Really, even children go crazy, believing the shape of the life they must live is as small and mean and broken as they are told.”

Source : Dorothy Allison (1996). “Two or Three Things I Know for Sure”, p.47, Penguin

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