"A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure."

-- Lucian Freud

#Thinking Quotes #Use Quotes #Being There Quotes

“Sin does not always drive us to drink; more often it drives us to exhaustion. Tiredness is equally as debilitating as drunkenness. Burnout is slang for an inner tiredness, a fatigue of our souls. Jesus came to forgive us all of our sins, including the sin of busyness. The problem with growth in the modern church is not the slowness of growth but the rushing of growth.”

Source : Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.64, Harper Collins
“I, myself, write to change my life, to make it come out the way I want it to. But other people write for other reasons: to see more closely what it is they are thinking about, what they may be afraid of. Sometimes writers write to solve a problem, to answer their own question. All these reasons are good reasons. And that is the most important thing I'll ever tell you. Maybe it is the most important thing you'll ever hear. Ever.”
“When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war.”
“In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have just everything.”
“Sometimes hope could be the most frightening thing in the world.”
“Let us seek Death, or he not found, supply With our own hands his office on ourselves; Why stand we longer shivering under fears, That show no end but death, and have the power, Of many ways to die the shortest choosing, Destruction with destruction to destroy.”
“Somebody has to give a wakeup call to our coaching world to ask them real questions and show them that if you have kids, then you know there is no way you can talk to somebody else like that, because that's somebody's child.”
“At present every coachman and every waiter argues about whether or not the relativity theory is correct.”

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