"It always shocked me how you could understand so many things and be such a complete idiot about so many others."

-- Jim Butcher

“As two pieces of wax fused together make one so he who receives Holy Communion is so united with Christ that Christ is in him and he is in Christ.”
“People often say that blindness sharpens hearing, but I don't think this is so. My ears were hearing no better, but I was making better use of them. Sight is a miraculous instrument offering us all the riches of physical life. But we get nothing in this world without paying for it, and in return for all the benefits that sight brings we are forced to give up others whose existence we don't even suspect. These were the gifts I received in such abundance.”

Source : Jacques Lusseyran (2014). “And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II”, p.18, New World Library
“We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.”
“I've just been livin' a normal life, going shopping, going out, gettin' pissed. I keep sitting on my arse doing nothing.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“The 'human situation,' in all its guises, is what good films are all about, and technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.”

Source : Edward Dmytryk (2012). “On Film Editing”, p.145, Taylor & Francis
“It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.”
“What writing practice, like Zen practice does is bring you back to the natural state of mind...The mind is raw, full of energy, alive and hungry. It does not think in the way we were brought up to think-well-mann ered, congenial.”
“Prayer! I couldn't live without it; I would have died a thousand times if it had not been for my chance to talk it over with God, and gain strength in it from him.”

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