"Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater."

-- Nicholas Evans

#Truth Quotes #Pain Quotes #Heart Quotes

“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.”
“You can have successful teams where people hate but deeply respect each other; the opposite (love but not respect among team members) is a recipe for disaster.”
“The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.”

Source : Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.39, Princeton University Press
“As a reader, youâ€™re often inside one or more character heads, so you know what theyâ€™re feeling, even if they canâ€™t exactly say it, or they say it so obliquely that the other characters donâ€™t catch it. Readers are frequently reminded of the gulf between what people say and what they mean, and such moments prod us to become more attuned to gesture, tone, and language.”
“In assembling this group of portraits of women, I'm aware that I'm treading on dangerous ground. When I was in college, I learned to be distrustful of men's depictions of women. I remember seeing Garry Winogrand's book Women Are Beautiful in the school library and being shocked that it hadn't been defaced for its blatant objectification of women. But looking back, maybe I was too harsh. Whether one photographs men or women, it is always a form of objectification. Whatever you say about Winogrand, his depiction was honest.”
“Through Christ's satisfaction for sin, the very nature of afflictions changed with regard to believers. As death, which was, at first, the wages of sin, is now become a bed of rest (Is. 57:2); so afflictions are not the rod of God's anger, but the gentle medicine of a tender father.”
“The poem is not a physical body. It's a textual body that has life only insofar as it can act symbolically. It cannot physically act.”

Source : Source: www.oxfordjournals.org
“Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence â€” the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under the couch, the inescapable prison of your genes â€” all of it is temporarily forgotten, crowded from your thoughts by an overpowering clarity of purpose and by the seriousness of the task at hand.”

Source : Jon Krakauer (2009). “Into the Wild”, p.150, Anchor

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