"I am very happy. Extremely, blissfully so. Even in my pain, I'm happy. I like crying. It makes me feel alive. Challenges, when you're in a tumultuous situation, are an opportunity to grow, an opportunity to get closer to God, an opportunity to find and kind of reform yourself, and to figure out what really matters and what your priorities are. Not that I'm welcoming tribulation, but I find that it is beneficial."

-- Essence Atkins

#Pain Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Priorities Quotes

“The best thing anyone can do in life is to give opportunities to a child.”
“I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.”
“Descartes' immortal conclusion cogito ergo sum was recently subjected to destruction testing by a group of graduate researchers at Princeton led by Professors Montjuic and Lauterbrunnen, and now reads, in the Shorter Harvard Orthodoxy: (a) I think, therefore I am; or (b) Perhaps I thought, therefore I was; but (c) These days, I tend to leave that side of things to my wife.”

Source : Tom Holt (2009). “Ye Gods!”, p.169, Hachette UK
“For both art and the historical sciences are modes of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence comes directly into play.”

Source : "The Gadamer Reader: A Bouquet of the Later Writings".
“There's more philosophy in jiu-jitsu mats than in any Ivy League school in America.”
“Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.”
“High birth is an accident, not a virtue.”
“Today the real test of America's power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it. Prevention must be our overriding objective. It can be done. Surrendering to the inevitability of combat only paves the way for its occurring.”

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