"We have to give our poor, innocent, and undeserving-of-our-badness characters trouble in order to make them characters in a story."

-- Alice Mattison

#Character Quotes #Order Quotes #Giving Quotes

“I've found that taking shortcuts will get you to the place you don't want to be much quicker than they get u to the place u want to be.”
“Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.”
“Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.”
“You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.”
“Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.”
“Love always seeks for betterment, for ways of making life more workable, joyful, whole, and beautiful. Love examines every option available to bring about an improvement in life. This kind of discernment is an act of decency, not an act of judgment. Rigid philosophies of judgment will seek to establish structure as a substitute for decency, control as a substitute for trust, and the mind as a substitute for higher awareness.”

Source : Glenda Green (2002). “Love Without End: Jesus Speaks--”, p.285, Fideli Publishing Inc.
“There's only three major elements. Air, land, which is your flesh and water, which is your blood. You're walking on a third of yourself. She's called Mother Earth. She gave birth to your ass. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, your maggot food ***** going right back to her!”

Source : "Eddie Griffin: Freedom of Speech". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 2008.
“If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.”

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