I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
From Malcolm Muggeridge
Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.
People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.
It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
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