"It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others"

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Source : Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.456, Macmillan

Jacqueline Carey

#Suffering Quotes #Limits Quotes #Observation Quotes

“I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much.”
“Simply put, when there is no home birth in a society, or when home birth is driven completely underground, essential knowledge of womenâ€™s capacities in birth is lost to the people of that societyâ€”to professional caregivers, as well as to the women of childbearing age themselves.”
“A critical issue for women is the possibility to be a mother and the ability to participate fully in the workforce.”
“A painter leaves his emotions behind him for posterity to share.”
“I often cried when I got angry; I hated that. Crying just made you look weak, no matter what triggered it.”
“It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them.”

Source : "Dustin Hoffman and me" by John Burnham Schwartz, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2012.
“I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.”
“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”

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