"It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity."

-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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“I've been very fortunateit's just been an amazing piece of luck. I haven't had to suffer for my art but I've suffered enough inside to hopefully be called an artist.”
“Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.”

Source : Henry Beston (1956). “The Outermost House”
“I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.”
“Sometimes you gotta laugh through the tears, smile through the pain so that you can live through the sorrow.”
“I just hugged the man that murdered my son.”

Source : "Forgiving Her Son's Killer: 'Not An Easy Thing'". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 20, 2011.
“At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.”
“There are times in your life when, despite the steel weight of your memories and the sadness that seems to lie at your feet like a shadow, you suddenly and strangely feel perfectly okay.”

Source : Kevin Brockmeier (2008). “The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories”, p.111, Vintage
“There are as many foolhardy ways to grow as there are to downsize.”

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