"There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at last, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance."

-- Sue Monk Kidd

#Acceptance Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Matter Quotes

“I've always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.”
“I don't want people to be afraid of health or illness or mortality, because it's a natural part of life.”
“What we dedicate today is not a memorial to war, rather it's a tribute to the physical and moral courage that makes heroes out of farm and city boys and that inspires Americans in every generation to lay down their lives for people they will never meet, for ideals that make life itself worth living.”
“The icy cold will cut us like a knife in the darkAnd we may lose everything in the windBut the Northern Lights are burningAnd they're giving off sparks.”

Source : Song: Bad For Good, Album: Bad for Good
“Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation, giving pleasure to a pilgrim, shade to a cow, berries to a bird, beauty to its surroundings, health to its neighbors, branches for the fire, leaves for the soil, asking nothing in return, in total harmony with the wind and the rain. How much can I learn from a tree? The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer.”
“I realised that to compare your insides with other people's outsides leads to unhappiness.”

Source : "Portrait of the artist: Marcus Brigstocke, comedian". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2007.
“I just like comedy in general. My film work, which has been at times more dramatic, has been satisfying. But I never feel quite as good and as light and blissful as when I'm doing comedy.”

Source : Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. November 18, 2009.
“How to get a job: Speak up and show some life about you. Almost anyone who can give you a decent job these days is half deaf.”

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