"While the richest people on earth pray to get richer, the rest of the world begs for intervention with their faces pressed to the window, watching us drink our coffee, unruffled by their suffering."

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Source : Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.90, B&H Publishing Group

Jen Hatmaker

#Coffee Quotes #People Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“The reason why Schubert is celebrated so much today, lies rather in the fact that there has been nobody else like him - not before him, not after him.”
“Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.”
“Sigh... I have learned that *everything* is so hard...except what Allah makes easy. So we must *beg* Him to make it easy on us.”
“I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we did live forever, then we would live forever, which is why I would not live forever.”
“The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.”
“How were the receipts today in Madison Square Garden ?”
“Consider what effects that might conceivably have practical bearings you conceive the objects of your conception to have. Then, your conception of those effects is the whole of your conception of the object.”
“When you're a solo artist and you have a band on tour you have to pay the band some salary. You don't realise the expenses, the way they add up SO quickly. But thank god I'm not a money person. So it doesn't really bug me at all, I mean it's more comical to me.”

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