"When you have no experience of pain, it is rather hard to experience joy."

-- George Wald

#Pain Quotes #Joy Quotes

“The next time you lose heart and you canâ€™t bear to experience what youâ€™re feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the way you see it and lean in. Instead of blaming our discomfort on outer circumstances or on our own weakness, we can choose to stay present and awake to our experience, not rejecting it, not grasping it, not buying the stories that we relentlessly tell ourselves. This is priceless advice that addresses the true cause of sufferingâ€”yours, mine, and that of all living beings.”
“Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an alliance with virtue, that a woman never shows to full advantage except as a mother. Then alone can her character expand in the fulfillment of all life's duties and the enjoyment of all its pleasures.”
“I know I am at the end. I shall never get better, dear.”
“People, when they come up to me, are like, Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp? And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.”

Source : "Happy Endings' Adam Pally, on playing TV's least stereotypical gay guy". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. October 23, 2012.
“The Father is truly the only Promise Maker who is in earnest a Promise Keeper. A promise from God is a promise kept.”

Source : Sheila Walsh (2011). “The Shelter of God's Promises”, p.17, Thomas Nelson Inc
“Indeed, Xcor stayed away for the wrong reason, the bad reason, an unacceptable reasonâ€”in spite of all his training, he found himself choosing Throeâ€™s life over ambition: His anger had taken him in one direction, but his regret had led him in another. And the latter one was what won out.”
“You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.”
“Your field report might be the reason someone detoured six blocks, say, on their way to the chiropractor.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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