Quotes
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Andrew Sullivan

"I believe in the pursuit of happiness. Not its attainment, nor its final definition, but its pursuit. I believe in the journey, not the arrival; in conversation, not monologues; in multiple questions rather than any single answer. I believe in the struggle to remake ourselves and challenge each other in the spirit of eternal forgiveness, in the awareness that none of us knows for sure what happiness truly is, but each of us knows the imperative to keep searching. I believe in the possibility of surprising joy, of serenity through pain, of homecoming through exile."

-- Andrew Sullivan

#Pain Quotes #Believe Quotes #Struggle Quotes

“An interesting question: is it easier to motivate a learned individual that never does anything, or educate an ignorant individual that actually produces things?”
“If common sense has not the brilliancy of the sun, it has the fixity of the stars”
“While theoretically a person may block God out, logically there will be a breakdown because ultimately all enunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind. And if that moral doctrine is not absolute then the definer himself becomes undefined. That's what we are living with - an undefined definer giving us definitions for our course, and we are being trapped in the quicksand of the absence of objective truth.”
“I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job.”
“I have lived in Mumbai for more than 20 years, have my domicile here, my home and family here.”
“Two things I recognize, O Lord, in myself: Nature, which Thou hast made; Sin, which I have added.”

Source : Lancelot Andrewes (1957). “Private Prayers”, London : S.C.M. Press
“This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen.”
“I've often been flabbergasted by modern pharmaceutical ads on television. The list of side effects for some maladies often sound worse than the condition they're supposed to treat. Once I even heard "heart failure" listed as a side effect, and I wondered how that happened. Heart failure sounds like a pretty major event to me, and if you're willing to risk heart failure in order to avoid the mild discomfort of some other condition, then may the gods shield you from harm, since you're obviously seeking it out.”

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