"That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones?"

-- Jodi Picoult

#Suffering Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.”
“Like taxes, radioactivity has long been with us and in increasing amounts; it is not to be hated and feared, but accepted and controlled. Radiation is dangerous, let there be no mistake about that-but the modern world abounds in dangerous substances and situations too numerous to mention. ... Consider radiation as something to be treated with respect, avoided when practicable, and accepted when inevitable.”
“I'd very much like to be Ava Gardner. She IS sex.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace.”
“You look at yourself and you accept yourself for who you are, and once you accept yourself for who you are you become a better person.”
“The chief is the chief. He is the eagle who flies high and cannot be touched by the spit of the toad.”
“In restaurants across America we see Latino workers in the kitchen who are being paid substandard wages. The saddest thing to me is that if we think about these workers, these are the people with the least access to good food. Yet they're often suffering from the highest rates of obesity and diet-related illnesses.”
“A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.”

Source : Annie Besant (2016). “Esoteric Christianity”, p.92, BookRix

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