"In our adversity, God shouts to us."

-- C. S. Lewis

#Adversity Quotes

“If you can find a company that can get away with raising prices year after year without losing customers (an addictive product such as cigarettes fills the bill), you've got a terrific investment.”
“The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become.”
“I've never asked a girl out in my life, they have to ask me.”
“The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora's box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.”
“For the first five years of music and first five years of acting, I don't remember it because I was running to where I was going. Finally I was like, 'Man, I missed everything.' So I just stopped, and I started looking around.”
“Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.”
“I'm a machine freak. I just love it when you can get a big ol' steel machine to do the most that it's capable of doing.”
“We all try to camouflage the monotony, But it takes a lot of energy. To insist on being special all the time. When we're so much like one another anyway. Our triumphs are the same. Our pain. Try for a moment to feel what relief there is in the ordinary.”

Source : "The Quiet Girl". Book by Peter Høeg, 2006.

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