"Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose--to make people laugh."

-- W. C. Fields

#Laughing Quotes #People Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“Where do we end, and what is the self? You cut off your arm, you're still yourself. You cut off two of your arms, you're still yourself. You cut off your arms and your legs, you're still yourself, right? Also, the idea of the self seems to be embedded right around here, right around the eyes. Infants know to look at the eyes.”
“O what pride, conforming to the world and following its fashions! Warn them, warn them for me, while you have strength and time and be faithful to your duty.”
“When Jesus performed miracles, he wasn't demonstrating what God can do, but what God can do through a man.”
“The enormous success of 2009's 'The Blind Side,' in which Sandra Bullock makes a black teenager one of the family, demonstrates that America isn't post-racial. It is thoroughly mired in race - the myths that surround it, the guilt it inspires, the discomfort it causes, the struggle to transcend it.”
“We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.”
“You have given it all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with it what you will. Give me only your love and grace. That is enough for me.”

Source : Ignatius Loyola (2014). “The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola:: 15 Day Retreat in Order by Day and Hour (illustrated)”, p.254, BookBaby
“Ambition is an expensive impulse, one that requires an enormous investment of emotional capital. Like any investment, it can pay off in countless different kinds of coin.”
“Run, jump, shout, but do not sin.”

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