"Bodily and spiritual affliction are the surest sign of Divine predilection. Gratitude for suffering is a precious jewel for our heavenly crown... Man should always firmly believe that God sends just that trial which is most beneficial for him."

-- Gertrude the Great

#Spiritual Quotes #Gratitude Quotes #Believe Quotes

“Obviously as a performer there's nothing more direct and emotionally satisfying than playing s**t for someone who likes your stuff, but I don't think I can make big room. No shade to the old guys, there's some dudes who are about that life and are good at it.”

Source : Source: thump.vice.com
“May you listen to the voice within the beat even when you are tired. When you feel yourself breaking down, may you break open instead. May every experience in life be a door that opens your heart, expands your understanding and leads you to freedom.”
“I've been in Los Angeles for a while, and the kind of psychological connection that one makes to people, it just doesn't happen out here.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You know why I got involved in politics? The government is now a majority partner in my life. I am now a minority partner in my own life.”

Source : Source: gawker.com
“She was not good on the phone. She needed the face, the pattern of eyes, nose, trembling mouth... People talking were meant to look at a face, the disastrous cupcake of it, the hide-and-seek of the heart dashing across. With a phone, you said words, but you never watched them go in. You saw them off at the airport but never knew whether there was anyone there to greet them when they got off the plane.”

Source : FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Jan 21, 2012
“You ask whether I am going over to the history of science... no, I am not as old as that.”
“I get very heated about anything that is socially unkind.”

Source : "Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“[F]or women, like tradesmen, draw in the injudicious to buy their goods by the high value they themselves set upon them.... They endeavor strongly to fix in the minds of their enamoratos their own high value, and then contrive as much as possible to make them believe that they have so many purchasers at hand that the goods--if they do not make haste--will all be gone.”

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