"We can never change the story that made us what we are. It's a story accumulated by the manifold complexities-its capacity for astonishment and horror, for sanguinity and hopelessness, for pellucid light and the most profound darkness. We are what happened to us. And we carry everywhere all that has shaped us-all that we lacked, all that we wanted but never got; all that we got but never wanted; all that was found and lost."

-- Douglas Kennedy

#Light Quotes #Profound Quotes #Darkness Quotes

“In all of my life, when I was playing sports, I always put 100 percent. I have always given the best.”
“Senators will do what they think they need to do to represent their constituents”
“Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it's just noise that can be a distraction.”
“Christmas always sucked when I was a kid because I believed in Santa Claus. Unfortunately, so did my parents. So I never got anything.”
“The enterprise of Adolf Hitler, with all its clatter and fireworks, and all its cunning and dynamic energy, is the enterprise of an evil spirit, which is apparently allowed its freedom for a time in order to test our faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.”

Source : Karl Barth (1941). “This Christian cause: (A letter to Great Britain from Switzerland)”
“A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.”
“There's a kind of luck that's not much more than being in the right place at the right time, a kind of inspiration that's not much more than doing the right thing in the right way, and both only really happen to you when you empty your heart of ambition, purpose, and plan; when you give yourself, completely, to the golden, fate-filled moment.”

Source : Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.110, Macmillan
“Hell was a living place inside every membrane of flesh that temporarily passed itself off as human.”

Source : Adam Nevill (2013). “A Horror Omnibus: Apartment 16, The Ritual, Last Days”, p.149, Pan Macmillan

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