"When we become aware that we do not have to escape our pains, but that we can mobilize them into a common search for life, those very pains are transformed from expressions of despair into signs of hope."

--

Henri Nouwen

#Pain Quotes #Expression Quotes #Despair Quotes

“I think that it is always hard to find two voices that fit together well.”
“To understand the culture, study the dance. To understand the dance, study the people.”
“Why do anything unless it is going to be great?”
“There can be no progress-real, moral prgress-except in the individual and by the individual himself.”
“We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents.”
“To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter, could function on its own; rather, ethics is an interior principle of the economy itself, which cannot function if it does not take account of the human values of solidarity and reciprocal responsibility.”
“My job is not to predict everything that might happen in the future, but to address what we can do today.”

Source : "SPIEGEL Interview with Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble: 'We Have No Relationship to our Diverse Muslim Society'". Interview with Jan Fleischhauer and Holger Stark, www.spiegel.de. September 20, 2006.
“In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.”

Source : "Why Is Sam Taylor-Wood Smiling?" by Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 23, 2010.

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