"The man who partakes in the breaking of the bread dares to build his house on the very core of love. He becomes, as it were, Godlike, but regardless of the strength he derives from it, his free will remains. We are always free to disown this immense grace, to abuse it. The Greatest Love may be betrayed. Fed on the Living Bread, we nevertheless conceal a part of ourselves which longs for swine's food."

-- Francois Mauriac

#Men Quotes #House Quotes #Grace Quotes

“Iâ€™d gone heavy on the black eye makeup until raccoons and I could pass for cousins.”
“There was something striking about her posture; something about the tilt to her head. She was like a beautiful and lonely piece of art, lovely but unreachable.”
“That's an important lesson for me, to not qualify my experience against somebody else's. My experience is the experience that I wanted to have, and have created for myself, but it doesn't make me any more deserving than anybody else - or less.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. February 11, 2003.
“May the IRS find that you deduct your pet sheep as an entertainment expense.”
“A professional entertainer who allows himself to become known as a singer of folk songs is bound to have trouble with his conscience provided, of course, that he possesses one. As a performing artist, he will pride himself on timing and other techniques designed to keep the audience in his control [...] his respect for genuine folklore reminds him that these changes, and these techniques, may give the audience a false picture of folk music.”

Source : "The Singer of Folk Songs and His Conscience". Book by Sam Hinton, Western Folklore 14:3, p. 170 - 173, July 1955.
“Your brain has an in-built mechanism for finding patterns you've programmed because of where you've put your attention. Solutions, innovations, and success come not from greater intelligence or creativity but from what we notice because of where we point those attributes”
“Must I dwell in slavery's night And all pleasure take its flight Far beyond my feeble sight, Forever?”
“You can hurt more than you ever thought possible, then continue until you discover that hurting isn't that big a deal.”

Source : Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.185, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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