"When people felt pain time and time again, they came to fear that pain above all other things. So they tried to ignore it, to forget it was happening, as a way of bearing it. And pretty soon, they would come to feel like they'd accomplished something just by doing that -- even though nothing had changed."

-- Fuyumi Ono

#Pain Quotes #People Quotes #Way Quotes

“Through our science we have created magnificent spacecrafts and telescopes to explore the night and the light and the half light. We have made visible things that are invisible to the unaided eye. We have brought the dreamy heavens down to Earth, held them in the mind's eye. Our explorations have produced a vast archive of remarkable astronomical images... The riches are too many for choices, the revelations beautiful and dreadful. Who can look at these images and not be transformed? The heavens declare God's glory.”
“You can imagine in China it's like: 'Ching chong hugong, ching chong kong, Danny Devito. Ching chong chong chong chong. The View. Ching chong!”
“By your grace, I will not despair. I believe that I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.”
“How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you â€” you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences â€” like rags and shreds of your very life.”

Source : Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (2008). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923”, Oxford University Press, USA
“I used to go to Saks, I would go to Bergdorf, I would go to Barneys, I would go to thrift stores in SoHo.”
“I would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan out.”
“It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.”
“I pick first my best team, and my captain from that team and I only pick players that are on form.”

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