"A long-term substance abuser, a few months before his death, penned this poem: Went downtown, Hastings and Main, looking for relief from the pain. All I did was find a ticket on a one-way train. ... Give me peace before I die. The track is laid out so well; we all live our private hell; just more tickets on the hell-bound train."

-- Gabor Mate

#Pain Quotes #Long Quotes #Track Quotes

“Forms and rituals do not produce worship, nor does the disuse of forms and rituals. We can use all the right techniques and methods, we can have the best possible liturgy, but we have not worshiped the Lord until Spirit touches spirit.”
“A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon, means the body can fool no one, can fool nothingâ€”not the wisdom of sleep or the habit of social graces. It is a consuming of oneself and the past.”
“What gets yme excited about a project and character is the director, the script, who's involved in the movie, and the character. Those are pretty much the essentials. If it's something different, if it scares me, in a way, if it will stretch me or push me into certain places that I haven't been to, then I like that. If you're just trying to talk yourself into it, then it's probably not for you. It's hard to be selective.”
“Second, this law has become a special symbol of our Nation's most important purpose: to fulfill the individual - his freedom, his happiness, his promise.”
“Kevin Cornell and I have worked together a bunch.”

Source : "Mac Barnett & Jory John Talk with Roger". Interview with Roger Sutton, www.hbook.com. February 3, 2015.
“The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsofts business practices.”
“Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck.”
“Life is not meant to be hard: if it is, we make it so.”

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