"A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart."

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Chuck Palahniuk

#Heart Quotes #Laughing Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.”

Source : "Flowers For Algernon". Book by Daniel Keyes, 2012.
“Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.”
“Little children never know that they feel seasick, till they are.”

Source : Katharine Brush (1940). “This is on Me”, New York : Farrar & Rinehart
“We cannot separate our lives from the Eucharist; the moment we do, something breaks. People ask, 'Where do the sisters get the joy and the energy to do what they are doing?' The Eucharist involves more than just receiving; it also involves satisfying the hunger of Christ. He says, 'Come to Me.' He is hungry for souls.”
“One has to arrive at a specific temperature, at which the objects become malleable.”
“I've always had a determination to perfect whatever I'm doing. If I can't do something, I work on it until I figure it out.”
“Your teacher cannot bridge the gap between what you know and what you want to know. For his words to â€˜educate' you, you must welcome them, think about them, find somewhere for your mind to organize them, and remember them. Your learning is your job, not your teacher's job. And all you need to start with is desire. You don't need a schoolteacher to get knowledge - you can get it from looking at the world, from watching films, from conversations, from reading, from asking questions, from experience.”
“Dear young friends, learn to pray every day: this is the way to know Jesus and invite him into your lives.”

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