#ness

People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it hard to forgive. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#forgiveness

To shame our sins He blushed in blood; He closed His eyes to show us God; Let all the world fall down and know That none but God such love can show ↗

— Bernard of Clairvaux

#god #jesus #love #sin #the-cross

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness. ↗

— Norman O. Brown

#becomes #common #common sense #equation #essence

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors. ↗

— Olympia Brown

#colors #future #general #good #happiness

What I see especially among the Navajos and the Zunis and the Hopis is a culture of people who have been smart enough to learn a lesson that we're awfully slow to get... They know that being rich doesn't have any damn thing to do with how much money you've got. It's got to do with are you happy and are you content. ↗

— Rachel Dickinson

#contentment #happiness #happy #lesson #money

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. ↗

— James Buchanan

#elicit #greatness #humanity #into #leadership

If the Europeans want to intervene, that's their business. But if I were president, I would remove every United States soldier from the Balkan peninsula. ↗

— Pat Buchanan

#europeans #every #i #intervene #peninsula

I believe in the power of weakness. ↗

— Pat Buckley

#believe #i #i believe #i believe in #weakness

It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others. ↗

— Carol Burnett

#after #also #because #been #feel

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. ↗

— Robert Schumann

#artist #darkness #duty #hearts #into