"Charity is the drowning of justice in the craphole of mercy."

-- Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

#Justice Quotes #Charity Quotes #Mercy Quotes

“[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the main point, and those who only wander in high places become part of the story.”
“I'm a very compulsive person, so I spend most of my time drawing or writing my diary, patching things up and carving bits of wood - I've carved two of my guitars.”
“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
“There is no such thing as happy music.”
“A story demanded to be written, and that is why I have not answered your letter before: a wrong-headed story, that would come blundering like a moth on my window, and stare in with small red eyes, and I the last writer in the world to manage such a subject. One should have more self-control. One should be able to say, Go away. You have come to the wrong inkstand, there is nothing for you here. But I am so weakminded that I cannot even say, Come next week.”
“It is necessary for a Christian to fast, in order to clear his mind, to rouse and develop his feelings, and to stimulate his will to useful activity. These three human capabilities we darken and stifle above all by 'surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life' (Lk. 21:34).”
“I would be the worst president in the history of the United States. Unless you want the apocalypse to happen really soon then yes, I'll run for president.”
“Healing opportunities can be disguised as people who really piss you off. Pay attention because they could be your greatest teachers.”

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