"We have to keep asking ourselves: 'What does it all mean? What is God trying to tell us? How are we called to live in the midst of all this?' Without such questions our lives become numb and flat."

-- Henri Nouwen

#Mean Quotes #Trying Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Because this, for better or worse, is exactly where the truth lies--at the intersection of the forgotten and the ignored, in the neighborhood of all we have tried to forget.”

Source : Sara Gran (2011). “Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead”, p.241, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“You know, things fall apart. You grieve. And then you sit around and wait for things to somehow get perfect again. But they donâ€™t. They never can. There is no perfect. Thereâ€™s just different. But different can be wonderful.”
“It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.”
“I've always been the long-term relationship, go-home-and-meet-mom girl.”
“The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.”
“Almost any dog thinks almost any human is the Great Spirit, the Primal Creator, and the Universal Force Behind the Sun and Tides. What human can resist?”
“I like places where you can dance to crazy music, like Bedlam or Eastern Bloc in the East Village.”
“What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.”

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