"You describe your reality in the highest resolution even when itâ€™s a nightmare and in doing so, you live your own life, not a cliche others have formulated for you."

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Source : "David Grossman: 'I cannot afford the luxury of despair'". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2010.

David Grossman

#Reality Quotes #Nightmare Quotes #Cliche Quotes

“Material objectives consume too much of our attention. The struggle for what we need or for more than we need exhausts our time and energy. We pursue pleasure or entertainment, or become very involved in associations or civic matters. Of course, people need recreation, need to be achieving, need to contribute, but if these come at the cost of friendship with Christ, the price is much too high. The substitutions we fashion to take the place of God in our lives truly hold no water. To the measure we thus refuse the "living water," we miss the joy we could have.”

Source : Marion D. Hanks (1974). “The Gift of Self”, Bookcraft, Incorporated
“While it is very sturdy of comfortable men to point out that life is unfair, the people it is unfair to are not apt to be morally or philosophically elevated by the announcement. If you are going to preach that unfairness is inescapable for some, good sense suggests that you also accept the inevitability of beastly behavior by people who have to carry the burden.”
“The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.”
“I only discovered electronic music as a teenager and I still love the Prodigy and Massive Attack.”
“The biggest problem I had - and the biggest problem teenagers have - is not how they dress, how they look or how they act or talk. It's how they see themselves - their self-esteem. In the tenth grade, I realized I am who I am. I've got big ears and big feet. I can etiher sulk around or I can be happy with who I am. The minute I decided to be confident with who I was, all that other stuff stopped. It's all in the way you carry yourself.”
“He: "Whale you be my valentine?" She: "Dolphinitely.”
“Wars are fought for the benefit of oligarchs, triumphs bought with the blood of peons.”
“Hospitals are great places, and you can learn from them, but you don't necessarily need to go in anytime you get the sniffles. And maybe you shouldn't treat pregnancy as a disease.”

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