#ness

But perhaps this is all to the good. Perhaps it’s best to live with the possibility that around any corner, at any time, may come the person who reminds you of your own capacity to surprise yourself, to put at risk everything that’s dear to you. Who reminds you of the distances we have to bridge to begin to know anything about one another. Who reminds you that what seems to be—even about yourself—may not be. That like him, you need to be forgiven. ↗

— Sue Miller

#love #forgiveness

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. ↗

— Andy Warhol

#art #being #best #fascinating #good

A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong. ↗

— Milton Berle

#forgiveness

To forgive is to set someone free. ↗

— Suzanne Selfors

#coffeehouse #life #forgiveness

There is a hard law. When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive. ↗

— Alan Paton

#forgiveness

In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feel like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another. ↗

— Andy Stanley

#forgiveness

It's weird to have people so interested in your personal life. It's a part of the business that grosses me out. I'm always bummed out for people who just happen to be dating a celebrity, and they're also famous, and they can't live their life. ↗

— Andy Samberg

#always #bummed #business #celebrity #dating

Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood. ↗

— Weihui Zhou

#intelligence #mad #madness #shanghai-baby #intelligence

Madness is the acme of intelligence. ↗

— نجيب محفوظ

#intelligence #madness #mahfouz #naguib #intelligence

I was helpless in trying to return people's kindness, but also helpless to resist it. Kindness is a scarier force than cruelty, that's for sure. Cruelty isn't that hard to understand. I had no trouble comprehending why the phone company wanted to screw me over; they just wanted to steal some money, it was nothing personal. That's the way of the world. It made me mad, but it didn't make me feel stupid. If anything, it flattered my intelligence. Accepting all that kindness, though, made me feel stupid. Human benevolence is totally unfair. We don't live in a kind or generous world, yet we are kind and generous. We know the universe is out to burn us, and it gets us all the way it got Renee, but we don't burn each other, not always. We are kind people in an unkind world, to paraphrase Wallace Stevens. How do you pretend you don't know about it, after you see it? How do you go back to acting like you don't need it? How do you even the score and walk off a free man? You can't. I found myself forced to let go of all sorts of independence I thought I had, independence I had spent years trying to cultivate. That world was all gone, and now I was a supplicant, dependent on the mercy of other people's psychic hearts. ↗

— Rob Sheffield

#grief #kindness #intelligence