"In the end, living is defined by dying. Book- ended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to bursting by the approaching end. Fear is ever-present, waiting to be called to the surface. Â Â Â Change brought fear, and fear brought destruction."

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Source : "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, 2010.

Bernard Beckett

#Book Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Dying Quotes

“Charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.”
“Waiting is the most exquisitely painful part of loving someone.”

Source : Denise Chavez (2002). “Loving Pedro Infante”, p.80, Simon and Schuster
“A man who hates the passion cuts off their causes. But a man who remains among their causes experiences even against his will the conflict from the passions. It is not possible to be mentally inclined toward a passion if one does not love its cause. For who, disdaining shame, is given to vainglory? Or who, loving lowliness, is bothered by dishonor? Who, having a broken and humble heart, accepts fleshly sweetness? Or who, believing in Christ, is concerned about temporal things, or argues about them?”
“Water is the basis of life and the blue arteries of the earth! Everything in the non-marine environment depends on freshwater to survive.”
“And then God gave me insight: this was winter. It would end, in time, but not by my own doing. My responsibility was simply to know the season, and match my actions and inactions to it. It was to learn the slow hard discipline of waiting. It was my season to believe in spite of-to believe in the absence of evidence or emotion, when there's nothing, no bud, no color, no light, no birdsong, to validate belief. It was my time to walk without sight.”
“My pictures are complex and so am I.”
“There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.”
“Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 11, 2013

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