"Without reason, why bother? Existence needs purpose: to be able to endure the pain of life with dignity; to give us a reason to continue. The meaning must enter our hearts, not our heads. We must understand the meaning of our suffering"

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Source : Sarah Winman (2017). “The Sarah Winman Collection: WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT and A YEAR OF MARVELLOUS WAYS”, p.19, Hachette UK

Sarah Winman

#Pain Quotes #Heart Quotes #Giving Quotes

“I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think I was pretty much hated in France. The French press ignored me. There was a movement when the children of celebrities faced strong animosity.”
“Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place.”
“I believe everybody is spiritual and no one is any more spiritual than anyone else.”
“Winning an Olympic gold medal is like nothing else.”
“Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord...He waits quietly for the King.”
“I felt that I could swim for miles, out into the ocean: a desire for freedom, an impulse to move, tugged at me as though it were a thread fastened to my chest. It was an impulse I knew well, and I had learned that it was not the summons from a larger world I used to believe it to be. It was simply a desire to escape from what I had.”

Source : Rachel Cusk (2015). “Outline”, p.39, Random House
“People compose the schedules they do out of the priorities they have; and someone who says otherwise is deceiving himself about what he really values. The same thing applies to money that applies to time. I make a practice of watching what people do, never what they say. Whatever is important, to anyone sane, he will make a place for it; people live out their values. Values are different in this respect from "ideals," which are typically vain and effete and thus exist mostly for the sake of promoting self-delusions.”

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