"Suffering has always been with us; does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives."

-- Etty Hillesum

#Suffering Quotes #Doe Quotes #Matter Quotes

“Unfortunately, the Best Lord had condemned both vehicles as unsafe and instead I now leased a Pack Jeep I called Hector. Equipped with dual engines, Hector worked during magic or tech. He didn't go very fast, especially during magic, but so far he hadn't stalled on me either. As long as our high-speed chases stayed under forty-five miles an hour, we would be all set.”
“People will do and think whatever it is they have to in order to survive.”

Source : Carol Plum-Ucci (2008). “The Body of Christopher Creed”, p.197, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“not to mention the CIA which should be, I think, dissolved, it's of no use - a great source of mischief - I don't see any point to the FBI...”
“I haven't ever really relied on relationships with guys. They come around and it's cool, but it's never been a big thing. I guess I've just been really distracted by work.”
“Our Lady is always close to us, especially when we feel the weight of life with all its problems”
“Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.”
“When you're in the world looking for only one thing, you find it or it finds you. The obsession can be mutual”
“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”

Source : Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.603, Simon and Schuster

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