"Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt."

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Source : J. M. Coetzee (1980). “Waiting for the Barbarians”, Penguin Group USA

J. M. Coetzee

#Pain Quotes #Doubt Quotes #Subjects Quotes

“Communications without intelligence is noise. Intelligence without communications is irrelevant.”
“Peering succeeds because it leverages self-organizationâ€”a style of production that works more effectively than hierarchical management for certain tasks.”

Source : Anthony D. Williams, Don Tapscott (2011). “Wikinomics”, p.35, Atlantic Books Ltd
“When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it, or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance. . . . The most difficult thing to admit, and to realize with one's whole being, is that you alone control nothing. . . .”
“I am MacWonder one moment and MacBlunder the next.”
“It's the only thing I get inspired by! I get inspired by dreams. Who cares about the rest?”

Source : "Manolo Blahnik and His Most Legendary Pump". Interview with Lauren Valenti, www.elle.com. March 15, 2013.
“Maybe we're all cabinets of wonders.”
“Here was I worrying about my journey, while God was helping me all the way. It made me realize that I am very weak; my courage is only borrowed from Him, but, oh, the peace that flooded my soul; and although I know that I may be held up at the border , I am at peace within, because I know that He never faileth.”

Source : "Gladys Aylward, One of the Undefeated: The Story of Gladys Aylward as Told by Her to R.O. Latham".
“The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.”

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