"Witnessing the pain of others is the very least you can do in this world. Its how you know that when your own turn comes, someone will be there with you."

-- Alix Ohlin

#Pain Quotes #World Quotes #This World Quotes

“I've said my patience is not infinite.”

Source : Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 27, 2012.
“Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.”
“Shut your role and know your mouth.”
“After many painful trials, which none can know, but those who are taught to relinquish a system in which they had been educated, I settled down in the full persuasion, that the immersion of a professing believer in Christ is the only Christian baptism.”
“Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.”

Source : A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926)
“If I was a complete slacker who was just doing nothing but traveling, I don't know if I would have the discipline to be productive and create this job, and on the other hand, if I was always disciplined and productive, I don't think I would have that mystical connection that lead to great work.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“The music was as much a gift as sunshine, as rain, as any blessing ever prayed for.”
“There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.”

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