"You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other peopleâ€™s sufferings and not your own."

-- Flannery O'Connor

#People Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Christ Quotes

“If I could make this go away, I would. If I could stand in your place, I wouldn't hesitate. But I'm left with one choice, and that's to stand by your side through the end. I won't waver, Angel, I can promise you that. -Patch to Nora”
“The man is clear in his mind, but his soul is mad.”

Source : "Fictional character: Photojournalist". "Apocalypse Now", www.imdb.com. 1979.
“At length, when I considered it, I realized that the best of my actions were small things. Picking flowers and cooking food for my mother when she had been unwell, spending an afternoon with the children, sending money to my sister or kissing Henry's tiny head as he slept in the nursery before I left. I thought of every detail and afterwards I felt better. Hellfire and brimstone have never appealed to me and I admit I become easily confused thinking of right and wrong. But I do understand kindness.”
“All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.”
“Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.”
“You cant make your music good. You cant try to be good. You can try to be present and you can try to remain open so what is going to speak to you can speak through you.”
“We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.”
“Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.”

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