"For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever."

-- Therese of Lisieux

#Pain Quotes #Joy Quotes #Forever Quotes

“My goal is to write every day. I say it is my ideal. I am careful not to pass judgment or create anxiety if I do not do it. No one lives up to his ideal.”
“So why is a third of our world battling obesity and spending huge sums to burn off excess calories, while the other two-thirds yearn to get more of them?”

Source : Wess Stafford (2010). “Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most”, p.177, WaterBrook
“Polytechnique is a school whose multi disciplinary, very high scientific level curriculum is invaluable.”
“What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish.”
“You will identify yourself either as a body or perfect spirit, as either divided or whole, depending upon how you see others. And, once you understand that, you will be careful about how you think about other people.”
“I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.”
“I seem to always inspire a strong reaction one way or the other”
“Wisdom can see the red, the rose, the stained and sculptured curve of grey, the charcoal scars of fire, and see around that living tower of tree the hermit tatters of old bark split down and strip to end the season; and can be quiet and not look for reasons past the edge of reason.”

Source : Judith Wright (1992). “A human pattern: selected poems”, Carcanet Press Ltd.

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