"Like my grandmother always said, 'you never know the blessings that come from suffering."

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Joan Bauer

#Grandmother Quotes #Blessing Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“You have to hide what you are and it's really stressful and very bad for your self esteem. Because it's not obvious to people that you are ill, they treat you as if you're a pain in the ass, then you beat yourself up and you are already beating yourself up as a part of mental illness.”
“When that theory is isolated from known facts, it is likely not to be productive.”

Source : "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.
“It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.”
“Preachers are stewards whom the Lord has â€˜set over his household servants to provide them with food at the proper time.â€™ After all the years the church has suffered under forceful preachers and winning orators, under compelling pulpiteers and clerical bigmouths with egos to match, how nice to hear that Jesus expects preachers in their congregations to be nothing more than faithful household cooks.”
“Suddenly the intermedia shows are all over town..Theirs remains the most dramatic expression of the contemporary generation. The place where its needs and desperations are most dramatically split open. At the Plastic Inevitable it is All Here and Now and the Future.”
“And Iâ€™m okay, I really am, most of the time. But sometimes, Iâ€™m just not.”
“Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.”

Source : "A Man in Love by Karl Ove Knausgaard - review" by Stuart Evers, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2013.
“Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.”

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