"People are longing to rediscover true community. We have had enough of loneliness, independence and competition."

-- Jean Vanier

#Loneliness Quotes #People Quotes #Community Quotes

“My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!”
“There is a great difference between the irreconcilable and the self-contradict ory.”
“If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated suffering.”
“So softly Lizzy has to lean over to hear me, I say, 'I can't face the world until I know why I'm here.' You're kidding me.' I shake my head vehemently. 'No. I need to figure out my purpose. Until I do, what's the use of getting up?”
“A great NOW will be a great WAS! A bad NOW will always be a bad WAS, and all you can hope for is a Great GONNA BE!”
“Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.”
“We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.”

Source : "Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, 1997.
“This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.”

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