"The surest sign that God is alive in you is joy."

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Robert Barron

#Joy Quotes #Alive Quotes

“I realized I really liked the screen. I knew it was a challenge, but I wasn't afraid of risk”
“I was never really seeking to play music. I knew I wanted to do it, but I think I wasn't seeking it out because it seemed so abstract to me.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.”
“People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the problem - there is no meaning in everything.”
“Is it strange, then, that in a literature so concerned with realism and with personal liberation this refusal and impoverishment of the life of the spirit have always nourished the screamers, the eccentrics, the pseudo-Whitmans, the calculating terrorists?”

Source : Alfred Kazin (2013). “On Native Grounds: An Interpretation Of Modern American Prose Literature”, p.62, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I don't think literature would be possible in a determined world. We might go through the motions but the heart would be out of it. Nobody could then 'smile darkly and ignore the howls.' Even if there were no Church to teach me this, writing two novels would do it. I think the more you write, the less inclined you will be to rely on theories like determinism. Mystery isn't something that is gradually evaporating. It grows along with knowledge.”
“I just like music that I can relate to, something to listen to in my car.”
“The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it.”

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