"The most tragic consequence of our criticism of a man is to block his way to humiliation and grace, precisely to drive him into the mechanisms of self justification and into his faults instead of freeing him from them. For him, our voice drowns the voice of God."

-- Paul Tournier

#Block Quotes #Men Quotes #Self Quotes

“The success of the poem is determined not by how much the poet felt in writing it, but by how much the reader feels in reading it.”
“If you have sinned, do not lie down without repentance; for the want of repentance after one has sinned makes the heart yet harder and harder.”
“Benjamin Franklin said it best, 'Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.'”
“The Net is the ultimate empowerment tool. You have the right to express your opinion to a global audience, but everyone has the right not to pay any attention to it.”

Source : Don Rittner (1999). “The IMac Book”, Coriolis Group
“It was as if pain were a room he had entered and the door had been locked behind him.”
“It's good to be in love.”
“I hated the culture [working in the bank], I hated the work. I very quickly realized that this wasn't what I wanted to do. So, after two years, I took some writing courses - I always loved to write - and I figured the only way I was going to get paid to write was in journalism.”
“Years ago, when he was around fourteen, he'd been all hipped on the idea of going to India. He read books about people sitting on rocks, naked, in all kinds of weather, but mostly bad, naturally, and walking barefoot through hot coals and arriving at wisdom. I used to say that it sounded to me as though they were getting away from wisdom as fast as they could. I think he sort of looked down on me for that.”

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