"The smile that covered a "multitude of pains" was no hypocritical mask. She was trying to hide her sufferings - even from God! - so as not to make others, especially the poor, suffer because of them. When she promised to do "a little extra praying & smiling" for one of her friends, she was alluding to an acutely painful and costly sacrifice: to pray when prayer was so difficult and to smile when her interior pain was agonizing."

-- Brian Kolodiejchuk

#Prayer Quotes #Pain Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes

“It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.”
“So the opposite of addiction is not sobriety. It is human connection.”

Source : "The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2015.
“American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making it far more secure.”
“I think my strength in teaching and what I get a lot of good feedback on is going towards the students and asking them what they are about. It's about putting your own personality into the work.”
“We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.”

Source : 1956 On the Suez crisis, House of Commons, 4 Nov.
“Nothing is far from God.”
“We have bloated bureaucracies in Corporate America. The root of the problem is the absence of real corporate democracy.”
“Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it.”

Source : Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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