"The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power)."

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Source : Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books

Dawn Powell

#War Quotes #Men Quotes #Vanity Quotes

“A flower, if you bruise it under your feet, rewards you by giving you its perfume.”

Source : Richard Wurmbrand (2017). “Tortured for Christ: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.63, David C Cook
“Self-inquiry is a spiritually induced form of wintertime. It's not about looking for a right answer so much as stripping away and letting you see what is not necessary, what you can do without, what you are without your leaves.”
“Obamacare is benefiting [Donald] Trump supporters.”
“The listeners who buy books after a reading multiply that reading; the author who realizes that he or she may be writing on a blank page but is at least not speaking to a blank wall may be encouraged by the experience, and write more.”
“If you commit yourself to the art of poetry, you commit yourself to the task of learning how to see, using words as elements of sight and their sounds as prisms. And to see means to see something worth all the agony of learning how to see.”

Source : "Fictional character: Eric Liddell". "Chariots of Fire", www.imdb.com. 1981.
“Don't concentrate on what you lack, concentrate on what you have. Then give all of it to Jesus for His use.”

Source : FaceBook post by Anne Graham Lotz from Oct 22, 2015
“The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.”
“I'll be anybody's friend, but only because I want to be their friend, not because I need something from them. This kind of an attitude sometimes makes it so some people - who want something from me and can't have it because they're not nice people - have an influence that can make things not great sometimes. But I don't care, because those people will be gone in a year anyway.”

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