"To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing."

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Source : Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”

Elizabeth Bibesco

#Friendship Quotes #Casts Quotes #Performers Quotes

“I understand the most profound and simplest Truth of all: Any time any of us reaches out, any time we pour even a drop of love, compassion, simple human decency (no matter how small; how seemingly insignificant) into the sea of earthly existence - we are, each and every one of us - the being called Mercy.”

Source : "Mercy". Book by J.M. DeMatteis and Paul Johnson, 1993.
“When we love, we see beauty; we speak in beauty; we walk in beauty. In love, we are beauty itself.”

Source : Catherine Ingram (2004). “Passionate Presence”, p.170, Penguin
“When I worked at The Independent newspaper, I had colleagues who would laugh and say that whenever they picked up the phone to my dad and heard his accent, they thought they were about to hear a five-minute warning to get out the building. People in Britain have always thought it acceptable to make racist remarks about the Irish. The prejudice underlying that supposed joke was everywhere.”
“For my love, I will wade through an ocean of blood, even if it destroys me”
“The #â€Ž cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts.”
“I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.”
“Incidentally, it's best not to argue with the nursing staff. I find the best course of action is to throw some chocolates in one direction and hurry off in the other while their attention is distracted.”
“Prayer, fasting, vigils, and all other Christian practices, however good they may be in themselves, certainly do not constitute the aim of our Christian life: they are but the indispensable means of attaining that aim. For the true aim of the Christian life is the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, vigils, prayer and almsgiving, and other good works done in the name of Christ, they are only the means of acquiring the Holy Spirit of God. Note well that it is only good works done in the name of Christ that bring us the fruits of the Spirit.”

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