"You must give and receive love only when doing so doesn't hurt others. That's the ethical path, and you should gain strength from walking it."

-- Amy Dickinson

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“Imagine all human beings swept off the face of the earth, excepting one man. Imagine this man in some vast city, New York or London. Imagine him on the third or fourth day of his solitude sitting in a house and hearing a ring at the door-bell!”
“Larry Grobel senses there are no answers in life, only questions. Good ones.”
“How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.”
“The enterprise of Adolf Hitler, with all its clatter and fireworks, and all its cunning and dynamic energy, is the enterprise of an evil spirit, which is apparently allowed its freedom for a time in order to test our faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.”

Source : Karl Barth (1941). “This Christian cause: (A letter to Great Britain from Switzerland)”
“I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.”
“Youth is so exciting. It'll take over. I don't want to be swept away. I want to be with the taking-over people, right to the end.”

Source : "Nicolas Roeg: 'I don't want to be ahead of my time'". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2011.
“Don't be sad! Because God sends hope in the most desperate moments. Don't forget, the heaviest rain comes out of the darkest clouds.”
“Every time I got hurt, the person who treated me said that. 'It is more attractive to admit that you're in pain.' Because of that person, I learned how to speak with honesty. Without making calculations about what the other person's thinking.”

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