#obsession

I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#characteristic #desire #i #jewish #jewish people

We need repentance. You see, repentance is not only going to a priest and confessing. We must free ourselves from the obsession of thoughts. We fall many times during our life, and it is absolutely necessary to reveal everything [in Confession] to a priest who is a witness to our repentance. Repentance is the renewal of life. This means we must free ourselves from all our negative traits and turn toward absolute good. No sin is unforgivable except the sin of unrepentance. ↗

— Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

#confession #eastern-orthodoxy #forgiveness #good #obsession

No one but another painter could know the delicacy required to balance the complexities, to keep reality at bay in order to remain in the innermost center of his work. ↗

— Susan Vreeland

#focus #obsession #art

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#business #cut #lonely #lonely business #memories

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#characteristic #die #double #impossibility #live

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession. ↗

— George Sand

#indestructible #obsession #trade #violent

Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

#love #love is #mine #obsession #obsessions

Obsessions turn people off. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#off #people #turn

I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds. ↗