"Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick cure for it."

-- Henri Nouwen

#Lonely Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Broken Quotes

“It's not for the writer to say whether the thing is successful or not.”

Source : The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.
“Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.”
“It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music”
“Everyone brings their crumb of information to the table. If they are not at the table, we donâ€™t benefit from their crumb.”

Source : "Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia's Contributor List" by Noam Cohenjan, www.nytimes.com. January 30, 2011.
“I won't play for a penny less than fifteen hundred dollars”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Anytime you go through a divorce, you're completely lost, whether you want to admit it or not, or whether you know it or not, you're completely lost.”
“There is nothing in the nature of a miracle that should render it incredible:;: its credibility depends upon the nature of the evidence by which it is supported. An event of extreme probability will not necessarily command our belief unless upon a sufficiency of proof; and so an event which we may regard as highly improbable may command our belief if it is sustained by sufficient evidence. So that the credibility or incredibility of an event does not rest upon the nature of the event itself, but depends upon the nature and sufficiency of the proof which sustains it.”
“Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.”

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