“I was convinced that the proverb about money not buying happiness was written by a rich guy who didn't want you to feel bad because you didn't have any.”
― Donald Jans, quote from Freaks I've Met
“I didn't want fine. I wanted to be somebody. Somebody with plenty of money.”
― Donald Jans, quote from Freaks I've Met
“Sorry, Jack. I really needed to hit rock bottom before I could dust myself off.”
― Donald Jans, quote from Freaks I've Met
“He looked so boring I didn't dare get too close to him for fear he'd snatch part of my brain”
― Donald Jans, quote from Freaks I've Met
“They were in charge of the privilege of staying and the joy of firing.”
― Donald Jans, quote from Freaks I've Met
“Those rich guys were right. Money can't buy happiness, because happiness is everywhere. It's free, like air.”
― Donald Jans, quote from Freaks I've Met
“I'm not sure who faked their orgasm first, but thankfully it was over rather quickly.”
― Donald Jans, quote from Freaks I've Met
“Look up and see His Word among the stars, where He has set your Name along with His. Look up and find your certain destiny the world would hide but God would have you see. C-ep.4. Let us wait here in silence, and kneel”
― quote from A Course in Miracles
“Страшна не сама смерть, не смертная боль от ножей жатки, не вопль, не окровавленные обрубки ног… но то, что так легко умереть, уйти из жизни прежде, чем снова созреет пшеница.”
― John Fowles, quote from Daniel Martin
“Never cry over anything that can't cry over you”
― John Marsden, quote from The Other Side of Dawn
“The Lord came, not to remove our suffering, but to show us the way through it to the glory beyond.”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, quote from Byzantium
“The deepest yearning of human beings seems to be a constellation in which the two poles (motherliness and fatherliness, female and male, mercy and justice, feeling and thought, nature and intellect) are united in a synthesis, in which both sides of the polarity lose their antagonism and, instead, color each other.”
― Erich Fromm, quote from To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
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