"Transformation without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss is just an illusion of true change."

-- William P. Young

#Pain Quotes #Loss Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.”
“It must be a hard life to be the child of a psychologist.”
“Men don't make passes at crones with big (rhymes with passes).”
“Sometimes when you write something, you have that day when you start writing and you feel really good, and you start changing it. At the end, it lost the essence. It lost the first idea, the energy that it had, it's going down after every change. And at the end it's something soft and too much rewritten or too much rebuilt that doesn't have the same energy as the beginning. So, I like the first takes because of that, you know. It has that first energy that sometimes it's difficult to recreate.”
“North Korea has certainly, in the past, used detainees to initiate diplomatic exchanges with the United States.”

Source : "North Korea Claims It Has U.S. Student In Custody". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. January 22, 2016.
“A society will manufacture an image of progress and locate it in the direction it wishes to take us.”
“True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.”
“A monumental decision such as starting a family requires persuasive dissertations, licences, spreadsheets and field research. That's what I assumed until one night when we were lying in bed and, if I recall correctly, I asked Tracy if we were ready to have a family now, and she said sure. That was it.”

Source : Ryan Knighton (2010). “C'mon Papa: Dispatches from a Dad in the Dark”, p.9, Knopf Canada

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