"Eventually we will find (mostly in retrospect, of course) that we can be very grateful to those people who have made life most difficult for us."

-- Ayya Khema

#Grateful Quotes #People Quotes #Retrospect Quotes

“It takes quite a bit of nerve for Democrats to complain about inflation. This reminds me of germs complaining about the disease.”
“Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.”
“God is not a Christian, God is not a Jew, or a Muslim, or a Hindu, or a Buddhist. All of those are human systems which human beings have created to try to help us walk into the mystery of God. I honor my tradition, I walk through my tradition, but I don't think my tradition defines God, I think it only points me to God.”

Source : "Walking into the Mystery of God" by John Shelby Spong, www.uua.org.
“Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.”
“We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.”

Source : Leo Deuel, Heinrich Schliemann (1977). “Memoirs of Heinrich Schliemann: a documentary portrait drawn from his autobiographical writings, letters, and excavation reports”, HarperCollins Publishers
“But then you hear that he can't hear you, you see that he can't see you. You are not here--and you haven't even died yet. You see yourself through his eyes, as The Generic Woman, the skirted symbol on the ladies' room door.”
“Most argument, and in fact most conflict, has nothing to do with the present. It's always about the past or the future. People can't agree on the details of what has happened or is going to happen. But we rarely know what has happened, and we never know what is going to happen. What is really at dispute is how we will deal with not knowing.”

Source : Steven Galloway (2014). “The Confabulist: A Novel”, p.115, Penguin
“That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.”

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