"When you seek a connection to God, you suffer. God is not absent."

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Mark Whitwell

#Suffering Quotes #Connections Quotes #Absent Quotes

“We tend to think of dangers and uncertainties as anomalies in the continuum of life, or irruptions of unpredictable forces into a largely predictable world. I suggest the contrary: that dangers and uncertainties are an inescapable dimension of life. In fact, as we shall come to understand, they make life matter. They define what it means to be human.”

Source : Arthur Kleinman (2007). “What Really Matters: Living a Moral Life Amidst Uncertainty and Danger”, p.1, Oxford University Press
“But the game involves only male names. Because, if it's a girl, Laila has already named her”
“Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.”

Source : Aldous Huxley (2009). “Island”, p.72, Random House
“It's not that appealing when something sexist happens to you. But if you're strong enough, and you can push that aside and keep your goal in mind and remember that you're doing your job - whatever that is, whether it's a producer or an artist or a mastering engineer - because you love it, then all that stuff falls by the wayside.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“My dad's a musician, and he taught me how to play when I was three, I think, so I've been playing ever since. It's something I've always done. And when you're really young, and you play music for people, people get really excited, so you get this inner sense that you are good at it, even though I've always been really not good at it.”

Source : Source: www.roomthirteen.com
“This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.”
“But if you parry individuals points - a negative and defensive enterprise - you never step back and actively imagine a world in which a different system of ideas could be true - a positive act.”
“How much service have I rendered to my people?”

Source : Ernest Thompson Seton, Julia Moss Seton (2005). “The Gospel of the Redman”, p.3, World Wisdom, Inc

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