"The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it can provide us, or the pain against which it can protect us."

-- Paul Tillich

#Pain Quotes #Work Quotes #Joy Quotes

“If you want to please me very much, you will fall down when I shoot you," -Oates The White Darkness”
“It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.”
“Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle the matter among themselves. Their intercourse: this is the whole of painting. Whoever meddles, arranges, injects his human deliberation, his wit, his advocacy, his intellectual agility in any way, is already disturbing and clouding their activity.”
“I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.”
“Every organ, gland and cell in the body is affected by the condition of the colon.”
“There are people in our lives whom we love, and lose, and unfailingly long for. They orbit our hearts like Halleyâ€™s Comet, crossing into our universe only once, or if we are lucky, twice in a lifetime.”
“The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.”
“There is no justice we don't make daily like bread and love.”

Source : Marge Piercy (2013). “The Art of Blessing the Day: Poems with a Jewish Theme”, p.196, Knopf

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