"As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isnâ€™t long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung of faith. Eventually you see that the task is hopeless, and you put away your ladder of facts and go get a ladder of faith."

-- Robert Breault

#Faith Quotes #Long Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“Truth exists; only lies are invented.”

Source : Le Jour et la nuit: Cahiers 1917-52 (Day and Night, Notebooks, 1952) p. 20
“We believe in the wrong things. That's what frustrates me the most. Not the lack of belief, but the belief in the wrong things. You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.”

Source : Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.82, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“I have come to understand myself as more of a New York writer, or more of a woman writer, but I don't feel like that while I'm writing. But I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here.”
“He can be a great player in this league if he learns how to say two words: "I'm full."”
“I can't get into all that physical stuff of having to have flawless skin... Sometimes you see people and it looks like someone's got an eraser and made their face a little blurry - their traits seem to go out of focus.”
“A man of bad character punishes his own soul.”
“Civilization sails prettily like a child's rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object; then it is likely to collapse like the balloon.”
“I look at my children and one thing I'm most proud of, in my heart, are my children.”

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