"After all, what is suffering but an awareness of suffering?"

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Source : Nancy Farmer (2010). “The House of the Scorpion”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

Nancy Farmer

#Suffering Quotes #Awareness Quotes

“You become a worrier by practicing worry. You can become free of worry by practicing the opposite and stronger habit of faith. With all the strength and perseverance you can command, start practicing faith.”
“People who really appreciated animals always asked their names.”

Source : Lilian Jackson Braun (1986). “The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern”, p.78, Penguin
“Thoughts would go in and out of my mind, but I didn't want to believe that he could have done it.”
“And so I have to live. Because we live for more than just ourselves, Most of the time we live for others, keep putting one foot before the other, left and right, left and right, so that walking becomes a habit, just like breathing. Ina n out, left and right.”
“Obama made his no-new-taxes pledge over and over again four years ago as he campaigned. Not only has he repeatedly and blatantly violated it, but his policies have relentlessly assaulted poor and middle-income family budgets.”
“I don't know how it is the most unattractive creatures of every nation seem to be the ones who travel.”

Source : Elinor Glyn (2013). “The Essential Elinor Glyn Collection”, p.249, eBookIt.com
“Well, it was war - I could not have carried on as an administrative officer if I had let myself be swayed emotionally by my feelings.”

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.
“I was aware that I was acting atrociously but I couldn't stop myself. Rarely had I behaved in such a manner. But I guess when we're feeling lonely in life, we attack those who actually do love us. It's one of the things that characterizes human nature and can be summed up in one word: FLAWED.”

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