"Even when a person suffers pain in consequence of a thorn having entered into his hand, although it is at once drawn out, it is a punishment that has been inflicted on him, and the least pleasure he enjoys is a reward; all this is meted out by strict justice; as is said in the Scripture, "all His ways are judgement" (Deut. xxxii. 4); we are only ignorant of the working of that judgement."

-- Maimonides

#Pain Quotes #Hands Quotes #Punishment Quotes

“When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Sex isn't hard, but intimacy is terrifying.”
“Woman is the most superstitious animal beneath the moon. When a woman has a premonition that Tuesday will be a disaster, to which a man pays no heed, he will very likely lose his fortune then. This is not meant to be an occult or mystic remark. The female body is a vessel, and the universe drops its secrets into her far more quickly than it communicates them to the male.”

Source : Edward Dahlberg (1965). “Reasons of the heart”
“I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all aspects of the same infinite consciousness that we call God and Creation.”
“Fear your admirers! Learn in time to hear, understand, and love the cruel truth about yourselves!”
“The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.”
“I am a man of my wordâ€¦ and that word is â€œunreliable.”
“I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.”

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