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For the first time I noticed - as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the next - that my suffering was taking place in a grand setting. I saw my suffering for what it was, finite and insignificant, and I was still. My suffering did not fit anywhere, I realized. And I could accept this. It was all right.
Yann Martel
My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.
Yann Martel
Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!
Yann Martel
Catholics have a reputation for severity, for judgment that comes down heavily.
Yann Martel
The main battlefield of good is not the open ground of the publis arena, but the small clearing of each heart.
Yann Martel
If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?
Yann Martel
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The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
Barbara Deming
Way of life in Australia focuses more on the outdoors.
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Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
("Life of Pi")
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For the first time I noticed - as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the next - that my suffering was taking place in a grand setting. I saw my suffering for what it was, finite and insignificant, and I was still. My suffering did not fit anywhere, I realized. And I could accept this. It was all right.
Yann Martel
My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.
Yann Martel
Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!
Yann Martel
Catholics have a reputation for severity, for judgment that comes down heavily.
Yann Martel
The main battlefield of good is not the open ground of the publis arena, but the small clearing of each heart.
Yann Martel
If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?
Yann Martel
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Related Authors: John Calvin - Zig Ziglar - Baal Shem Tov - Karl Marx - Max Weber - Og Mandino - Francis of Assisi - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Based on Topics: Happiness Quotes, Redemption & Salvation Quotes
The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
Leo Buscaglia
Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
Barbara Deming
Way of life in Australia focuses more on the outdoors.
Thomas Muster