"The Holy Spirit, out of compassion for our weakness, comes to us even when we are impure. And if He finds our intellect truly praying to Him, He enters it and puts to flight the whole array of thoughts and ideas circling within it, and He arouses it to a longing for spiritual prayer."

-- Evagrius Ponticus

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“All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to me. I am not an ascetic, but I don't know what to do with them, and my daily life has never been so trying, and there is no one to fill it emotionally.”
“Women are damn resilient.”
“Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Humiliation, slavery, fear have perverted us to the bone; we no longer look like men... . Men must be granted the respect due to them.”
“I walked in on my folks doing it doggy style less than four hours ago." "Waitress!" Jonas screamed, clicking his fingers madly. "Bring two!" then, more quietly,"You want a neck massage? A bedtime story? A bullet in the ear?”
“Are you smelling me?â€ After yesterday I suspected that my body was giving him all kinds of information I didn't want him to have. â€œDon't tempt me,â€ he murmured.”
“The maddening thing for someone with a Western scientific turn of mind is that itâ€™s not whatâ€™s in your pack that separates the quick from the dead. Itâ€™s not even whatâ€™s in your mind. Corny as it sounds, itâ€™s whatâ€™s in your heart.”

Source : Laurence Gonzales (2017). “Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why”, p.23, W. W. Norton & Company
“If right now our emotional reaction to seeing a certain person or hearing certain news is to fly into a rage or to get despondent or something equally extreme, it's because we have been cultivating that particular habit for a very long time.”

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