"You need to work yourself up into some kind of a state every morning and believe that you are doing something terribly important upon which the future of literature, if not the world, depends. Buddhism tells you that this is just a foolish fantasy. So, I try not to think too much about Buddhism early in the morning. From noon on, I think about it."

-- Pankaj Mishra

#Morning Quotes #Believe Quotes #Buddhism Quotes

“Christendom, as an effect, must be accounted for. It is too large for a mortal cause.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 135, 1895.
“No discrimination, that's what we're about as a country.”
“Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and, if you know anything about their careers, you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.”
“I think a lot of us can relate to not choosing to face a painful memory, and something that's a painful past, and wanting to pretend like it never happened.”
“I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions.”

Source : "Happy Maybe Day" by John Higgs, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2009.
“I know what a good man is because I saw it in my father.”
“One day youâ€™ll wake up and find that the painâ€™s still there but it doesnâ€™t hurt quite so much.”
“If some day they take the radio station away from us, if they close down our newspaper, if they donâ€™t let us speak, if they kill all the priests and the bishop too, and you are left, a people without priests, each one of you must be Godâ€™s microphone, each one of you must be a messenger, a prophet. The church will always exist as long as there is one baptized person. And that one baptized person who is left in the world is responsible before the world for holding aloft the banner of the Lordâ€™s truth and of his divine justice.”

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