"Aid workers, when handing out food to starving people, quickly learn that the people fighting for it at the front are the people who need it least. It's the people sitting quietly at the back, too weak to fight, who need it the most. And so too with tragedy."

-- Louise Penny

#Fighting Quotes #People Quotes #Tragedy Quotes

“I have spoken to plants myself, and if pressed for conclusions would have to say that those I threatened did better than those I - well, I wouldn't say prayed over, but pleaded with, cajoled. A rhododendron that hadn't bloomed for six years was flatly told it would be removed the following year if there were no flowers. Need I say that it has bloomed profusely ever since?”
“I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.”
“You're nothing short of my everything.”
“Lord Jesus, Who in the Eucharist make your dwelling among us and become our traveling companion, sustain our Christian communities so that they may be ever more open to listening and accepting your Word. May they draw from the Eucharist a renewed commitment to spreading in society, by the proclamation of your Gospel, the signs and deeds of an attentive and active charity”
“[O]ur own bodies are changing every second. Yet we take the body to be our Self; and, speaking in terms of it, we say, â€œI am hungryâ€ or â€œI am lameâ€; â€œI am blackâ€ or â€œI am white.â€ These are all just the conditions of the body. We touch the truth when we say, â€œMy body aches,â€ implying the body belongs to us and that therefore we are not that. (87)”
“Klaus Toppmoller: hair like David Gower and dress sense like Austin Powers.”
“Don't be afraid, just play the music.”
“... nothing seems completely to differentiate the poor but poverty. We find no adjectives to fit them, as a whole, only those of which Want is the mother. "Miserable" covers many; "shabby" most, and I am sadly aware that, in a large majority of minds, "disagreeable" includes them all.”

Source : Albion Fellows Bacon (1914). “Beauty for Ashes, by Albion Fellows Bacon; with Numerous Illustrations”

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