"Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs."

-- Thomas Pynchon

#Greed Quotes #Abuse Quotes #Power Of Love Quotes

“Why do you pray if you doubt you are heard?”
“When you knock on the door of opportunity, do not be surprised that it is Work who will answer.”
“When we will think deeply, then we will realize that enjoyment is short lasting and reality of it is suffering.”
“We're always going to be cherry-picking to make religion make sense. Especially in the modern context.”
“I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.”
“There are still things out there in the universe to contemplate and spend our lives chasing.”

Source : "Revelations Anyone Can Have" by Leigh Newman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2012.
“If paintings are so important - worth so much, reproduced, cherished, and visited so often - then isn't it troubling that we can hardly make emotional contact with the artists? Few centuries, it seems, are as determinedly tearless as ours.”
“We are not apt to think of the importance of events as they transpire with us, but we feel the importance of them afterwards.”

Source : Rudger Clawson, Wilford Woodruff (1993). “Waiting for World's End: The Diaries of Wilford Woodruff”

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