"I know that God is not going to willfully hurt us. Why there is suffering is the business of the Lord, but He never seems to give us more than we can bear."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

#Hurt Quotes #Giving Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“I think a lot of young aspiring writers get misdirected; they think 'I ought to write this, even though I enjoy reading that'. What you have to do is write what you enjoy reading.”
“I like owls. I admire their intransigent spirit. I have respected them deeply ever since I met a baby owl in a wood, when it fell over dead, apparently from sheer temper, because I dared to approach it. It defied me first, and then died. I have never forgotten the horror and shame I experienced when that soft fluffy thing (towards which I had nothing but the most humanitarian motives) fell dead from rage at my feet.”
“Vlad made a mental note to amend the friend code: thou shalt not date the girl that thy best friend has a crush on...nor shalt thou try sticking thy best friend in the chest with a sharp hunk of wood.”

Source : Heather Brewer (2008). “Ninth Grade Slays #2: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod”, p.125, Penguin
“If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.”
“May your love be firm, and may your dream of life together be a river between two shores - by day bathed in sunlight, and by night illuminated from within. May the heron carry news of you to the heavens, and the salmon bring the sea's blue grace. May your twin thoughts spiral upward like leafy vines, like fiddle strings in the wind, and be as noble as the Douglas fir. May you never find yourselves back to back without love pulling you around into each other's arms.”
“The life of a working model in L.A. kind of sucks.”

Source : "Analeigh Tipton" by Alison S. Cohn, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.
“The problem is that humans have victimized animals to such a degree that they are not even considered victims. They are not even considered at all. They are nothing. They don't count; they don't matter; they're commodities like TV sets and cell phones. We have actually turned animals into inanimate objects - sandwiches and shoes.”

Source : Source: www.all-creatures.org
“Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.”

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