"We are all a people in need. We are not perfect. We are not machines. We make mistakes. We need grace. We need compassion. We need help at times. We need other people. And that's okay."

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Source : Jamie Tworkowski (2015). “If You Feel Too Much: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For”, p.84, Penguin

Jamie Tworkowski

#Life Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Compassion Quotes

“'A Christmas Story' has always meant a lot to me personally.”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Peter Billingsley to Executive Produce 'A Christmas Story' Musical" by Leslie Bruce, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 30, 2010.
“The entire Jesus concept, that human sacrifice should be the substratum of a moral religion of love, strikes me as incongruous. God condemned us and Jesus saved us, and they are actually the same being? Christianity is the idea that you are so abhorrent that God had to kill himself. He had to embody the human form and send himself on a bizarre suicide mission just to revoke the disgustingness of the humans he created. I balk at suggestions that these ideas dictate to the concepts of morality and love.”

Source : Trevor Treharne (2012). “How to Prove God Does Not Exist: The Complete Guide to Validating Atheism”, p.188, Universal-Publishers
“I verily believe that the kingdom of God advances more on spoken words than it does on essays written and read; on words, that is, in which the present feeling and thought of the teaching mind break into natural and forceful expression.”

Source : Richard Salter Storrs (1875). “Conditions of success in preaching without notes, 3 lects”, p.61
“We say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with wider intelligence.”
“Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.”
“If I didnt promote Joker, then who promoted”
“One of the proud joys of the man of letters --if that man of letters is an artist is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives; the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make a profound and as it were more living impression on the world's memory.”

Source : Statement on February 08, 1868. "Pages from the Goncourt Journal". Book by Edmond de Goncourt, translated by Robert Baldick, p. 135, 1962.
“I've been curious ever since I was a little kid.”

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