"I understand the most profound and simplest Truth of all: Any time any of us reaches out, any time we pour even a drop of love, compassion, simple human decency (no matter how small; how seemingly insignificant) into the sea of earthly existence - we are, each and every one of us - the being called Mercy."

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Source : "Mercy". Book by J.M. DeMatteis and Paul Johnson, 1993.

J. M. DeMatteis

#Simple Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Sea Quotes

“There was always a unique Beirut sound, it was always there, and so this time I just dove straight into that, instead of daydreaming and wandering.”

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“Failure is an event, something that happens at a specific time on a certain day. If you want to be successful, you have to embrace failure and get back up every single time.”

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“Everyone does what they can to avoid thinking. Laziness is the most basic human trait. People don't want to think -- they can't make the connection between entertainment and thought, they want immediate kicks. People will not be human until they get pleasure from thought. Only a thinking person can be a full person.”
“Today, if you listen to sports talk radio, they are not talking the right way about most women's sports. Those people will retire, or frankly a lot of them are getting fired or laid off - and we'll get younger people into key media positions who are more egalitarian, more open minded, more respectful.”

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“And always Melbourne, Melbourne, Melbourne, over and over the same photo in glaring greens and reds, of a tram, huffy, blunderous, manoeuvring itself with pole akimbo round the tight corner where Bourke Street enters Spring.”

Source : "Cosmo Cosmolino". Book by Helen Garner, 1992.
“A dozen extra steps becomes a tremendous aggravation when you are pushing your edge out hour after hour.”
“I am consumed, or I have been consumed, with these issues of motherhood and the way we act out societal expectations and roles. So both my nonfiction and my fiction have been pretty much exclusively about that.”
“This is heaven. You can stop praying now.”

Source : "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: Trip to Heaven and Hell". Comic book by Jhonen Vasquez,

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