"When you realize that suffering and discomfort are the call to inquiry, you may actually begin to look forward to uncomfortable feelings. You may even experience them as friends coming to show you what you have not yet investigated thoroughly enough."

-- Byron Katie

#Feelings Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Looks Quotes

“Among the major tasks before us none is of greater importance for our strength and stability than the task of building up the unity and solidarity of our people.”

Source : Lal Bahadur Shastri (1965). “Speeches, June 1964-May 1965”
“Have I ever been horrified to see someone in my clothes? Many times, but I close my eyes and look the other way. That happens to everyone. What can you do? Go and tell her, 'Don't wear that dress again'? We designers always have fantasies in our heads, but the difficult task is to make them reality. Because you can be the best designer, but designing in your own place and with nobody wearing [your clothes], then what happens? You're nowhere.”
“Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?”
“She expected the pain, when it came. But she gasped at its sharpness; it was not like any pain she had felt before. He kissed her and slowed and would have stopped. But she laughed, and said that this one time she would consent to hurt, and bleed, at his touch. He smiled into her neck and kissed her again and she moved with him through the pain. The pain became a warmth that grew. Grew, and stopped her breath. And took her breath and her pain and her mind away from her body, so that there was nothing but her body and his body and the light and fire they made together.”

Source : Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.242, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. People that love sex. That's me. People that love people. That's me. And people that make mistakes.That's me also.”

Source : "Man in the mirror" by Paul Flynn, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2004.
“Ninety-nine Christians in every hundred are merely playing at Bible study; and therefore ninety-nine Christians in every hundred are mere weaklings, when they might be giants, both in their Christian life and in their service.”

Source : R. A. Torrey (2015). “D. L. Moody - Why God Used”, p.9, Editora Dracaena
“No one ever achieved a goal by being interested in its achievement. One must be committed.”
“I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football.”

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