"What makes a genius? The ability to see. To see what? The butterfly in a caterpillar, the eagle in an egg, the saint in a selfish person, life in death, unity in separation, God in the human and human in God and suffering as the form in which the incomprehensibility of God himself appears."

-- Brennan Manning

#Selfish Quotes #Butterfly Quotes #Eagles Quotes

“In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.”
“I get offered movies probably twice a month and they are just generally bad.”

Source : Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. October 6, 2004.
“Knowing what [Christ] knew , knowing all about mankind--ah! who would have thought that the crime is not so much to make others die, but to die oneself--confronted day and night with his innocent crime, it became too difficult to go on. It was better to get it over with, to not defend himself, to die, in order not to be the only one to have survived, and to go elsewhere, where, perhaps, he would be supported.”
“Truth is with the victors-who, as you know, also controls the historians.”
“Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure”
“With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The affluent society, with relentless single-minded energy, is turning our cities, most of suburbia and most of our roadways into the most affluent slum on earth.”

Source : Eric Sevareid (1964). “This is Eric Sevareid”
“The music beckons to those who are listening.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself.”

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