"The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War"

-- Jurgen Habermas

#War Quotes #Years Quotes #Misery Quotes

“Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional. Physical pain is a fact that comes with living, just as illness or financial woes or broken relationships are facts. But misery is a state of mind, a reaction to the facts, that can be controlled or altered by an act of will....”
“Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another”
“I have some questions about betrayal,â€ I said. â€œThink about this: A person who calls you his best friend, and says he has dinner plans with you, goes off with a beautiful woman, saying heâ€™ll be back directly, then makes you wait half an hour because heâ€™s kissing the woman in the alley. Is that betrayal?â€ â€œOh, Lord.â€ Eldric tossed back his wine.”

Source : Franny Billingsley (2011). “Chime”, p.161, Penguin
“The hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most.”
“O wearisome condition of humanity! Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity; Created sick, commanded to be sound.”

Source : Fulke Greville, “Mustapha”
“I have always thought that Heaven is a place for people who had had a good life, but that is not true. God is merciful and way too good to make it so. The Heaven is just a place for people who could not be really happy while living on Earth. I was once told that people who commit suicide are taken back on Earth to repeat life from the very beginning because if they did not like it once, it did not mean they would not like it the next time. But those who did not fit in on Earth at all, ended up here. Everyone comes to Heaven in their own way.”
“No work nor deed of ours whatsoever, no not faith itself, can be the condition of the covenant of grace properly so called; but only Christ's fulfilling all righteousness.”

Source : Thomas Boston (1767). “A view of the covenant of grace from the sacred records: Wherein the parties in that covenant, the making of it; its parts ... and the administration thereof, are distinctly considered. Together with the trial of a saving personal in-being in it, and the way of instating sinners therein ...”, p.91
“We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.”

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