"The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right."

-- Quentin Crisp

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“What happens in somebody's house down the street does in very deed have an effect on what happens in my house and how it's treated.”
“What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed up against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, criscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is not where I want to be.”
“If you have to go back through your day in your head, try to go back to only the good things. Look at those, and what you did well. Otherwise, life kind of passes you by.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“The whole point of the system is to bribe you with the leftovers of what they have stolen from you in the first place.”
“God never intended His people to be ordinary or commonplace. His intentions were that they should be on fire for Him, conscious of His divine power, realizing the glory of the cross that foreshadows the crown.”

Source : Smith Wigglesworth (2013). “Smith Wigglesworth on Manifesting the Divine Nature: Abiding in Power Every Day of the Year”, p.15, Destiny Image Publishers
“We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There is the bellyache and the burned-out basement bulb, the stalled car and the incontinent cat. The windows frost, the toilets sweat, the body of our spouse is one cold shoulder and the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures.”
“Reassurance is such a sad, mad thing. Deep inside, everyone knows the truth.”
“Whether you are religious or nonreligious, may you find solace in the knowledge that the suffering is ours, but that those we love suffer no more.”

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