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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne
#quotes #michel-de-montaigne #human
Will is stronger than fact; it can mold and overcome fact. ~H. G. Wells
#quotes #h-g-wells #wish #hardship
Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
#quotes #james-thurber #truth #human
What is not forbidden in Sweden, is obligatory. ~Milton Friedman
#quotes #milton-friedman #sweden
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. ~Gaston Bachelard
#quotes #gaston-bachelard #human #creation #desire
My real heroes have always been sports-writers. ~Dan Jenkins
#quotes #dan-jenkins #sports
The West is dead; you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her. ~Charles Marion Russell
#quotes #charles-marion-russell #west
Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
#quotes #ralph-waldo-emerson #human #world #education
Man is the slave of beneficence. ~Arabic Proverb
#proverbs #arabic-proverbs #human
proverbiosFor mercy has a human heart; pity, a human face; and love, the human form divine, and peace, the human dress. ~William Blake
#quotes #william-blake #human #love
They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. ~Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#quotes #carlos-ruiz-zafon #stories #ideas
All human joys are swift of wing. For heaven doth so allot it. That when you get an easy thing, you find you haven't got it ~Eugene Field
#quotes #eugene-field #happiness #hardship
Everybody has talent, it is just a matter of moving around until you have discovered what it is. ~George Lucas
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I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree. ~Caroline Knapp
#quotes #caroline-knapp #shyness #nature #interaction
Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb
#proverbs #hungarian-proverbs #human #apple #adam-and-eve
God does not change; and neither does His love. He loved you before you were born. He loves you now; and He will love you forever. ~Billy Graham
#quotes #billy-graham #god #love
A healthy man is a successful man. ~French Proverb
#proverbs #french-proverbs #health
I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different. ~Ridley Scott
#quotes #ridley-scott #believe #movies
Well, it's always nice to know the fans didn't forget what you did when you played in the NHL. ~Guy Lafleur
#quotes #guy-lafleur #fans #nhl
If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #human #purpose
Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise. ~Proverb
#proverbs #advice #listening #wisdom
You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving. ~Ted Olson
#quotes #ted-olson #love #sympathy
There's a lot to be said for not displacing people. ~Barney Frank
#quotes #barney-frank #displacement