"I never understand how writers can succumb to vanity - what you work the hardest on is usually the worst."

-- Flannery O'Connor

#Vanity Quotes #Worst Quotes #Hardest Quotes

“It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill.”

Source : Julien Benda (2011). “The Treason of the Intellectuals”, p.183, Transaction Publishers
“In one of his last appearances, Mitterrand, the agnostic president, was asked what the real God might say to him if he went to heaven. God would say: "At last, you know." And I would hope that He would add, "Welcome."”
“I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains”
“I think the commercial culture, and also science and technology after all, which gives us greater ease but also makes it harder for us to sit with the small amounts of distress that come just by living itself. It isn't that we're chasing happiness; I think we have the wrong model of happiness. I mean, defined as eudaimonia, defined as a values-based life of integrity and fidelity to yourself and what you most deeply want to stand for, that definition of happiness - man, that's the kind of life I want to live and I think that will support people and sustain people.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“The only time a wife listens to her husband is when heâ€™s asleep.”
“To live with courage, purpose, and connection - to be the person whom we long to be - we must again be vulnerable. We must ... show up, and let ourselves be seen.”
“There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult to avoid repeating.”
“Interesting - I use a Mac to help me design the next Cray.(when he was told that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac )”

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