"How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd..."

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Source : Irène Némirovsky (2006). “Suite Francaise, a Novel”, Knopf Canada

Irene Nemirovsky

#Beautiful Quotes #World Quotes #Absurd Quotes

“The life function of [the local church] is to love the God who created it - to care for others out of obedience to Christ, to heal those who hurt, to take away fear, to restore community, to belong to one another, to proclaim the Good News while living it out. The church is the invisible made visible.”
“There are a whole lot of people who are so freakin' busyâ€”they've so cluttered up their livesâ€”they're at their wits' end. And if they'd only just stop for a minute, they could hear the God of the universe whisper to them, â€œI love you.”
“Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.”
“Id like to quit thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else.”
“I'm really proud to be a woman representing Country music”

Source : "ACM Awards 2014: Country singers talk politics, George Strait awarded top honor" by Sasha Savitsky, www.foxnews.com. April 7, 2014.
“Looking at him like that, I felt like I needed something from him, or somebody, and that probably meant that he also needed something from me, or somebody, but the revelation was like looking at spots on a slide. Knowing that it meant something to somebody wasn't the same as it meaning something to you.”

Source : Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.227, Scholastic Inc.
“Every leader needs to remember that a healthy respect for authority takes time to develop. Itâ€™s like building trust. You donâ€™t instantly have trust, it has to be earned.”
“A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.”

Source : "Woyzeck". Play by Georg Büchner, Scene X, 1879.

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