"But itâ€™s only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be doing with it."

--

Pico Iyer

#Distance Quotes #World Quotes #Should Quotes

“I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes.”
“This it is that gives a majesty so pure and touching to the historic figure of Christ; self-abandonment to God, uttermost surrender, without reserve or stipulation, to the guidance of the Holy Spirit from the Soul of souls; pause in no darkness; hesitation in no perplexity, recoil in no extremity of anguish, but a gentle unfaltering hold of the invisible Hand, of the Only Holy and All Good--these are the features that have made Jesus of Nazareth the dearest and most sacred image to the heart of so many ages.”
“There were no black images of dignity, no images of beautiful black people. There was this big hole. I tried to fill it.”

Source : "Roy DeCarava obituary" by Richard Williams, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2009.
“It's alarming how quickly people adjust to adventures when they are in one. You really have to work at being astonished by life.”
“There may be something universal about idealizing the past, but I think it's taken to an absurd degree in New York, which is what I'm poking fun at. The hole-in-the-wall bars I went to in the 90s that smelled like sewage now enjoy legendary status, as if times were had there that could never be had anywhere else.”
“God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.”
“It is no use for the honorable member to shake his head in the teeth of his own words.”
“At 50$ per barrel of oil we shall lose about three trillion rubles of budget income”

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