"Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can."

-- Dodie Smith

#Suffering Quotes #Someone You Love Quotes #Teach Quotes

“Loving humanity means as much, and as little, as loving raindrops, or loving the Milky Way. You say that you love humanity? Are you sure you arenâ€™t treating yourself to easy self-congratulation, seeking approval, making certain youâ€™re on the right side?”
“Real men don't buy girls-they protect them. We're recruiting real men who have the courage to stand up against this issue.”
“Love is what we are in our essence, and the more love we feel in our hearts, the more it will be brought to us.”
“Horror would not annoy a soldier any more than the sight of a hammer annoys a carpenter. It is sentimental to pretend that horror is not the tool of the soldier, just as the hammer is the tool of the carpenter. We live off death and the threat of death and we must take it calmly and use it well.... Eventually I came to enjoy killing, as a pianist enjoys the Czerny which keeps his fingers limber for the Beethoven.”
“It's so funny, because when I was growing up in a small town in New Hampshire, I was obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio - from the 'Growing Pains'/'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' era, because he was superhot - and I carried a laminated photo of him in my wallet and said he was my boyfriend. But no one believed me.”
“Back in middle school, Catherine and I had gone through this stage where all we would read were fantasy books. We'd consume them like M&M's, by the fistful, J.R.R. Tolkien and Terry Brooks and Susan Cooper and Lloyd Alexander. Susan Boone looked, to me, like the queen of the elves (there's almost always an elf queen in fantasy books). I mean, she was shorter than me and had on a strange lineny outfit in pale blues and greens....”
“I dont have aluminum foil on my windows anymore.”
“I can change my mind, but only the Holy Spirit can change my heart. Divine love can only be divinely imparted.”

Source : Jack Deere (1996). “Surprised by the Power of the Spirit: Discovering how God Speaks and Heals Today”, p.201, Harper Collins

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