"The pain others give passes away in their later kindness, but that of our own blunders, especially when they hurt our vanity, never passes away"

-- William Butler Yeats

#Hurt Quotes #Pain Quotes #Kindness Quotes

“I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is very deficient. It gives a lot of factual information, puts all our experiences in a magnificently consistent order, but is ghastly silent about all and sundry that is really near to our heart, that really matters to us. It cannot tell us a word about red and blue, bitter and sweet, physical pain and physical delight; it knows nothing of beautiful and ugly, good or bad, god and eternity.”

Source : William A. Dembski (2002). “Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology”, p.224, InterVarsity Press
“He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.”
“That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.”
“In the Zen Way we focus upon each breath, each day, each moment and experience it totally. One complete breath brings the next.”
“The free economy is not the enemy but the friend of social capital.”
“I totally carpe-d the snot out of this diem!”
“People in this room must have back problems, I'm sure some of us do, and it is really, really one of the worst pains and debilitating parts of your body that you can actually have because you really can't do anything in your life when you have it.”
“Lizzie Bright Griffin, do you ever wish the world would just go ahead and swallow you whole?" "Sometimes I do," she said, and then smiled. "but sometimes I figure I should just go ahead and swallow it.”

Source : Gary D. Schmidt (2004). “Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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