"Patience is eternal genius"

“Have some fun while you wait for the will of heaven.”

Source : Tom Spanbauer (2007). “In the City of Shy Hunters”, p.26, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

“You never really feel somebody's suffering. You only feel their death.”

Source : "Fictional character: Harry". "Harry and Tonto", www.imdb.com. 1974.

“Being of service to others is what brings true happiness.”

“To put it mildly, the world is a mess”

Source : "In Obama's Foreign Policy, Some See Patience; Some See Passivity" by Scott Horsley, www.npr.org. July 31, 2014.

“First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law”

Source : "Surfer on the new wave" by Peter Lennon, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2001.

“We even talked like Hemingway characters, though in travesty, as if to deny our discipleship: That is your bed, and it is a good bed, and you must make it and you must make it well. Or: Today is the day of the meatloaf. The meatloaf is swell. It is swell but when it is gone the not-having meatloaf will be tragic and the meatloaf man will not come anymore.”

Source : Tobias Wolff (2004). “Old School”, p.14, Vintage

“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.”

“Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease”