"Life is such an effort, Child. It's a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses for which you pay a cruel price."

-- Oriana Fallaci

#Children Quotes #War Quotes #Effort Quotes

“You try getting through the Hollows traffic with a stoned redhead hanging out the window shouting, 'I'm king of the world!' ~Lee”
“My two rules of cooking: keep it fresh and keep it simple.”
“Aristocratic depression has this cosmic dimension to it, where it's asking these big questions about, "Why?" "What is the purpose of all this?" Neuroses of the middle class is the banishment of aristocratic depression, because it's kind of this obsession with quotidian detail that pushes these larger questions away.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“It is in many people's best interest for you not to find yourself, but it only matters that it is in yours, and the whole world's, to proceed.”
“There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.”
“I grew up around animals [seven horses, dogs and now a pet goldfish named Leila] and I'm rebelling against them not having a natural existence.”
“People essentially like local news better than network news.”
“There is not a moment in which God does not present Himself under the cover of some pain to be endured, of some consolation to be enjoyed, or of some duty to be performed. All that takes place within us, around us, or through us, contains and conceals His divine action.”

Source : Jean-Pierre De Caussade (2007). “Abandonment to Divine Providence”, p.15, Cosimo, Inc.

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