"Emotional and psychological pain were to become, perhaps, the most powerful force in molding the course of my life. For some people, pain and hurt breed bitterness and cynicism. For others it causes them to look deeply into themselves and into life itself in an attempt to understand the meaning beneath seemingly capricious or arbitrary happenings."

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Source : Joseph F. Girzone (1994). “Never Alone: A Personal Way to God”, Doubleday Books

Joseph Girzone

#Hurt Quotes #Pain Quotes #Powerful Quotes

“Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN.”
“An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrinsic the Intentionality of the utterance is derived.”

Source : "Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind". Book by John Searle, 1983.
“The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.”
“I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.”
“If I'm going to work, hopefully I have a late call time, and can hang out with Rain and our nanny until we shoot.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I believe that hope for the future depends on each of us taking nonviolence into our hearts and minds and developing new and imaginative structures which are nonviolent and life-giving for all.”

Source : Mairead Corrigan Maguire (2010). “The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland”, p.19, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“I have argued that a religion or a philosophy cannot speak about facts of the world - if it does, it is now or will eventually be wrong - but it can and should speak about the relevance and ranking of facts and observations.”
“I don't have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn from them, and you become a better person.”

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