"...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But from what he could see, big change almost never happens. People simply feel lost. They have no idea what to say or do or feel or think. they become messes and tend to remain messes."

-- Douglas Coupland

#Pain Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not stand idle for long before the collapse of its earlier assumptions.”

Source : Kim Chernin (1982). “The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness”, HarperCollins Publishers
“It is that perfection of God by which he is devoid of all change, not only in His Being, but also in His perfections, and in His purposes and promises.”

Source : Louis Berkhof (1996). “Systematic Theology”, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“Ultimately you understand there is order in the universe, even if there is no order in your immediate circumstances.”
“Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.”

Source : Speech in Hawarden, Wales, May 28, 1890.
“Womenâ€™s loyalty has to be earned with trust and affection, rather than barbaric rituals. The time has come to leave the old ways of suffering behind”
“It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.”
“We (the FBI) are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.”
“Now death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands and bands manufactured to precise specifications; we are so used to things transmuting into whatever we would like them to be that it comes as a profound outrage to encounter death, stubbornly unspinnable, only and immutably itself.”

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