"The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure."

-- Sigmund Freud

#Reality Quotes #Ego Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“But people that are worried about unborn babies are the same ones that vote against kindergarten programs in Indiana or school lunch funds out of the federal government.”
“I had looked forward to old age as a time of quietness, a time to draw my horizons about me, to watch memories ripening in the sunlight of a walled garden. But there is the void over my head and the distance within that the tireless signals come from. And astronaut on impossible journeys to the far side of the self I return with messages I cannot decipher.”

Source : "Between Here and Now" by R. S. Thomas, ("The New Mariner", p. 99), 1981.
“I think there needs to be people that are doing something different in music. There's a need for that as much as there's a need for a scene.”
“I have had no control over my life. I have lived in a complete bubble. They found me and picked me for the part. And now I'm desperately trying to find my way through it.”
“I became producer so that I could work with persons like him and to rock the world of Hong Kong Cinema a bit.”
“Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.”

Source : William Ralph Inge (1927). “The church in the world: collected essays”, Ayer Co Pub
“Justice is getting what you deserve. Mercy is not getting what you deserve. And grace is getting what you absolutely don't deserve. ...... benign good will. unprovoked compassion. the unearnable gift”

Source : Cathleen Falsani (2008). “Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace”, p.14, Harper Collins
“My own parents loved each other very much.”

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