"For standing between Cody and his pain is my obligation, and standing between my uncle and his pain is my rent, but the pain I coax from Bronte is my joy"

-- Neal Shusterman

#Uncles Quotes #Pain Quotes #Joy Quotes

“It's just nice to work hard and be rewarded, which is having lots of people watch. And the icing on the cake is for me is to be able to walk around with pride, feeling that the product you put out is worthy of being watched. But honestly, it's not a big deal. I don't put too much stock in fame or celebrity anyway. I don't put it in the 'important' box.”
“I'm drawn to the psychology of really interesting, flawed people.”
“We're terrible at realising what goes on in other people's heads because we are trapped inside our own.”
“I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing - my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes.”

Source : "What I see in the mirror" by Gary Kemp, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2012.
“Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood.”
“Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.”
“I am an eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, I am showing you a world, the likes of which only I can see”
“But all at once I realized that it was not my success God had used to enable me to help those in this prison, or in hundreds of others just like it. My life of success was not what made this morning so glorious -- all my achievements meant nothing in God's economy. "No, the real legacy of my life was my biggest failure -- that I was an ex-convict. My greatest humiliation -- being sent to prison -- was the beginning of God's greatest use of my life; He chose the one thing in which I could not glory for His glory.”

Source : Charles Colson (1997). “Loving God”, p.24, Zondervan

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