"You can only kill disappointment with a new try."

-- Kim Stanley Robinson

#Disappointment Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.”

Source : Richard Baxter, Benjamin Fawcett (1853). “The saints everlasting rest, or, A treatise of the blessed state of the saints in their enjoyment of God in heaven”, p.167
“It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.”
“Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.”
“So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.”
“It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do”
“We are searching for the same thing,â€ Stripey said. â€œHow do you know?â€ Janco asked. â€œI read his mind.â€ The Sitian pointed to Ari. â€œYours was tooâ€¦chaotic. Too many useless thoughts to wade through.â€ A compliment or an insult? Janco guessed compliment and preened.”
“Art is a profession, not a shrine.”
“I shall not rest until every German sees that it is a shameful thing to be a lawyer.”

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