"It is not merely that people must die and people must suffer, if not here, then there. But what is dreadful is that the world goes on and people go on being stupidly cruel - in the old ways and all the time."

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Source : Ford Madox Ford (1923). “The Marsden Case: A Romance”

Ford Madox Ford

#People Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Goes On Quotes

“Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than Emperor's.”
“I don't want to spend my entire life drawing talking heads. It seems like a waste of everyone's time.”
“A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health.”

Source : "Kate Middleton Has An Empowering Message For Those Facing Mental Health Stigma" by Lindsay Holmes, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2015.
“The Talmud tells a story about a great Rabbi who is dying, he has become a goses, but he cannot die because outside all his students are praying for him to live and this is distracting to his soul. His maidservant climbs to the roof of the hut where the Rabbi is dying and hurls a clay vessel to the ground. The sound diverts the students, who stop praying. In that moment, the Rabbi dies and his soul goes to heaven. The servant, too, the Talmud says, is guaranteed her place in the world to come.”
“All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.”
“The New Testament writers speak as if Christ's achievement in rising from the dead was the first event of its kind in the whole history of the universe. He is the 'first fruits,' the pioneer of life,' He has forced open a door that has been locked since the death of the first man. He has met, fought, and beaten the King of Death. Everything is different because He has done so.”
“The idea that the Lord our God is not a personage of tabernacle is entirely a mistaken notion. He was once a man. Brother Kimball quoted a saying of Joseph the Prophet, that he would not worship a God who had not a Father; and I do not know that he would if be had not a mother; the one would be as absurd as the other. If he had a Father, he was made in his likeness. And if he is our Father we are made after his image and likeness.”
“It doesn't matter if it's raining and dark. The sun is shining above the clouds.”

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