"Is suffering so very serious? ...I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It's extremely painful... hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain... is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness."

-- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#Pain Quotes #Men Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“I don't know what drives me, I don't have a clue, but I'm driven more today than I ever have been.”
“I'll never get why the earth is a puzzle that i'll never fit.”
“Fight if you wish. Deny what is before you if it comforts you. But nothing you do can change your fate.”
“Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you're not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever you want to. They can, too. Every moment together is a choice.”
“Tackling challenges that are too big for you is what makes you grow as a human being. Why do you think this problem keeps coming up in your life, staring you in the face? Do you think you're supposed to ignore it and hide from it and wait for someone else to solve it for you? If you notice it, you own it.”
“In place of our exhaustion and spiritual fatigue, God will give us rest. All He asks is that we come to Him...that we spend a while thinking about Him, meditating on Him, talking to Him, listening in silence, occupying ourselves with Him - totally and thoroughly lost in the hiding place of His presence.”
“They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places.”

Source : "Eddie Redmayne On ‘My Week With Marilyn,’ And Which Old Screen Legend He Would Have An Affair With". Interview with Gazelle Emami, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2011.
“I can hear you and I can watch your mouth move, and then I put together the sounds and the visual image, and I can understand the words as I integrate the two signals.”

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