"It is impossible â€“ now, at this point in the long journey of human culture â€“ to avoid the sense that pain is necessity; that it is neither accident, nor malformation, nor malice, nor misunderstanding, that it is integral to the human character both in its inflicting and in its suffering, this terrible sense Tragedy alone has articulated, and will continue to articulate, and in so doing, make beautifulâ€¦"

-- Howard Barker

#Beautiful Quotes #Pain Quotes #Character Quotes

“The beginning of Christendom, is, strictly, at a point out of time. A metphysical trigonometry finds it among the spiritual Secrets, at the meeting of two heavenward lines, one drawn from Bethany along the Ascent of the Messias, the other from Jerusalem against the Descent of the Paraclete. That measurement, the measurement of eternity in operation, of the bright cloud and the rushing wind, is, in effect, theology.”

Source : Charles Williams (2016). “The Descent of the Dove: A Short History of the Holy Spirit in the Church”, p.1, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.”
“If you look at it on just a very cold scale, corporations and the government do not care about the poor. So in what's considered a poor area, you got to look at things. What's going on there? The actual environment is sick, and sickly, and causes illness.”
“I actually love pressure. I loved playing sport at school in front of a crowd; I love being on stage in front of a big audience. I buzz off that.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.”

Source : "Beerbohm Tree" by Hesketh Pearson, (p. 110), 1956.
“Fall down nine times, get up ten.”

Source : Roz Savage (2013). “Stop Drifting, Start Rowing: One Woman's Search for Happiness and Meaning Alone on the Pacific”, p.62, Hay House, Inc
“Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.”
“I know that the gift that God gave me isn't gonna just wither up and die unless I let it die, so it's a matter of me having the faith that it's gonna come out. Whether or not the public's gonna like it is another story. But I think as long as I keep changing and sticking to what I really love - and the same goes for Steven and the other guys in the band - then people are gonna like it.”

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