"I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it."

-- Georges Bernanos

#Love Quotes #Pain Quotes #Compassion Quotes

“My family is more important than my party.”

Source : 2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 1 September 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York
“When it comes to physicians there is a common thread that is a major barrier to solving our concerns. We are divided. The result is a divide and conquer scenario, in which we negotiate as adversaries, first with government and then with one another about our relative worth, while the "conqueror" observes and continues to rule.”
“To be polite to everybody except the people they love most is a nervous affectation that afflicts many families ... when they come home, they take off their smiles and soft words, and sit about, spiritually in their underwear. This isn't pretty.”
“The physical universe was created when Oneness became duality, and we can see this duality, this yin and yang, everywhere in the universe, in every atom, every action, and in every function of the human body. Yin and yang are manifest everywhere, except at the very center of being, the perfect point of balance, at that infinite moment where the future becomes the past.”
“I try to get a vision of the future, and then I try to figure out where the discontinuities are.”
“It's easier to fall back into old behaviors when you come back to a place where you were a shorter person.”

Source : "‘Pretty Little Liars’ EP Explains How Spencer and Caleb Ended up Together, Teases What’s Down Sara’s Ladder". Interview with Reid Nakamura, www.thewrap.com. February 16, 2016.
“Materia had been just six when they docked in Sydney Harbour and her father said, 'Look. This is the New World. Anything is possible here.' She's been too young to realize that he was talking to her brother.”

Source : Ann-Marie MacDonald (2011). “Fall On Your Knees”, p.22, Simon and Schuster
“I think actors always have that fear of unemployment so when the opportunities are there, you just jump on them.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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