"Life sends us messages all the time - then sits around laughing over how we're not gonna be able to figure them out."

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Source : James Sallis (2012). “Drive: The book that inspired the major film starring Ryan Gosling”, p.27, Oldcastle Books

James Sallis

#Laughing Quotes #Able Quotes #Messages Quotes

“We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.”
“I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.”

Source : Interview with Michael Koresky, Jeff Reichert, reverseshot.org. July 2, 2004.
“Pain by itself is merely pain, but the experience of pain couples with an understanding that the pain serves a worthy purpose as suffering. Suffering can be endured because there is a reason for it that is worth the effort. What is more worthy of your pain than the evolution of your soul?”
“People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from being disadvantageous either to individuals or to the community.”

Source : Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.149, TAN Books
“The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness means that each of us is free to go our own way, even if the ways some of us may choose to go seem sinful or shocking to our fellow citizens.”

Source : Dan Savage (2002). “Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America”, E P Dutton
“The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways.”

Source : "The Meaning of Culture". Book by John Cowper Powys, p. 209, 1929.
“In restating this basic Christian doctrine, Benedict argues that it is not only for Christians alone. Others may not share the Christian faith in God, but the Christian proclamation that hope comes from within the person- in the realm of faith and conscience - is for them too. It offers an important protection against stifling and occasionally brutal social systems built on false hopes that come from outside the person, founded on political idealogies, economic models and social theories.”
“Just cause ***** get behind you don't mean they got your back Beware of the serpent...”

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