"Suffering itself is beloved: love and suffering are far closer to each other than love and pleasure."

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Source : Lydia Millet (2005). “Oh Pure and Radiant Heart”, p.127, Soft Skull Press

Lydia Millet

#Grief Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Sorrow Quotes

“It is always easier to get forgiveness than permission.”
“Always seek to excel yourself. Put yourself in competition with yourself each day. Each morning look back upon your work of yesterday and then try to beat it”
“I believe you can use photographs to meditate on and work through things in your life.”
“I think every script I read has something that sends me into a state of panic but that usually makes me want to do it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.”
“It's in the Bible. God created it. He did not create gay marriage. He created man and woman marriage -- duh!”

Source : "Victoria Jackson At CPAC: Former SNL Star On Gay Marriage, Barack Obama, GOP Candidates" by Michelangelo Signorile, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2012.
“I was just surprised when my wife told me we were having a baby. I was like, Wow, that's awesome. You're going to make a great single mom.”
“It seems to me that the great pleasure of human life is not in having an opinion, but rather in learning all the ways you are wrong, and all the nuances you failed to account for, and all the truths that turned out to be not as simple as you once believed. And it seems to me that one of the central pleasures of attending school is that you get to read with really well-informed people who can help welcome you into a complex world stuffed with rich and maddening ambiguity.”

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