--- title: "Inspiring Old man Qoutes" description: "Browse 2,184 Old man quotes by 1,502 authors. Discover the best Old man sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dfa/george-clooney-1132_broadcasting_my-father-was-and-is-a-great-journalist_1905887.jpg" --- > [My father was and is a great journalist. Thirty years ago, I was studying broadcasting in college, and the problem was I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-clooney/my-father-was-and-is-a-great-journalist-thirty-years-ago-i-was/) [George Clooney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-clooney/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dfa/george-clooney-1132_broadcasting_my-father-was-and-is-a-great-journalist_1905887.jpg) > [“That was the Old Man’s favorite song. “Blow Ye Trumpet.” Them Negroes was far away from the doings on the plaza where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-mcbride/that-was-the-old-man-s-favorite-song-blow-ye-trumpet-them-negroes-was/) [James McBride](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-mcbride/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad5/james-mcbride-4758_favorite-song_that-was-the-old-man-s-favorite-song-blo_3082853.jpg) > [I would get songs sung to me, like 'Old Man River, 'or kids would call me Mississippi and things like that. At…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/river-phoenix/i-would-get-songs-sung-to-me-like-old-man-river-or-kids-would-call-me/) [River Phoenix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/river-phoenix/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b3/river-phoenix-11883_appropriate_i-would-get-songs-sung-to-me-like-old-ma_2865194.jpg) > [The god which the vast majority of professing Christians love is looked upon very much like an indulgent old man, who himself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-god-which-the-vast-majority-of-professing-christians-love-is/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f5/anonymous-1_christian_the-god-which-the-vast-majority-of-profe_1976982.jpg) > [“The first thought was this: that he was a foolish old man, because all his life he'd been looking for something and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-sedgwick/the-first-thought-was-this-that-he-was-a-foolish-old-man-because-all/) [Marcus Sedgwick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-sedgwick/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a90/marcus-sedgwick-15741_memories_the-first-thought-was-this-that-he-was-a_3197965.jpg) > [“Listen, he said vehemently. Somebody's going to have to say what they really mean and then do what they say they will.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-gay/listen-he-said-vehemently-somebody-s-going-to-have-to-say-what-they/) [William Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-gay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b77/william-gay-17446_old-man_listen-he-said-vehemently-somebody-s-goi_1528567.jpg) > [“C’mon!” Marlboro Man shouted, jumping onto the back of a nearby spray truck driven by an elderly man. “Hop in there with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ree-drummond/c-mon-marlboro-man-shouted-jumping-onto-the-back-of-a-nearby-spray/) [Ree Drummond](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ree-drummond/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d1/ree-drummond-818_old-man_c-mon-marlboro-man-shouted-jumping-onto_1671418.jpg) > [“Father Brendan Flynn: "A woman was gossiping with her friend about a man whom they hardly knew - I know none of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-patrick-shanley/father-brendan-flynn-a-woman-was-gossiping-with-her-friend-about-a/) [John Patrick Shanley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-patrick-shanley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c9/john-patrick-shanley-13888_differences_father-brendan-flynn-a-woman-was-gossipi_2097626.jpg) > [“Read this to yourself. Read it silently. Don't move your lips. Don't make a sound. Listen to yourself. Listen without hearing anything.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bo-burnham/read-this-to-yourself-read-it-silently-don-t-move-your-lips-don-t/) [Bo Burnham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bo-burnham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/405/bo-burnham-1313_hope_read-this-to-yourself-read-it-silently-d_1519003.jpg) > [“I regret no words," Frederic said. "i love words. and the words i just spoke were the truth. you are a coward,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-healy/i-regret-no-words-frederic-said-i-love-words-and-the-words-i-just/) [Christopher Healy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-healy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e2/christopher-healy-18883_coward_i-regret-no-words-frederic-said-i-love-w_2257149.jpg) > [“In confession occurs the break-through to the Cross. The root of all sin is pride, superbia. I want to be my own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dietrich-bonhoeffer/in-confession-occurs-the-break-through-to-the-cross-the-root-of-all/) [Dietrich Bonhoeffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dietrich-bonhoeffer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b94/dietrich-bonhoeffer-303_death_in-confession-occurs-the-break-through-t_1825034.jpg) > [“It seems like everyone these days is putting on a mask to feel beautiful, trying to fit into some pre-established norms of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vironika-tugaleva/it-seems-like-everyone-these-days-is-putting-on-a-mask-to-feel/) [Vironika Tugaleva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vironika-tugaleva/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/178/vironika-tugaleva-2648_beautiful_it-seems-like-everyone-these-days-is-put_2731918.jpg) > [“Ah, you may sit under them, yes. They cast a good shadow, cold as well-water; but that's the trouble, they tempt you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-durrell/ah-you-may-sit-under-them-yes-they-cast-a-good-shadow-cold-as-well/) [Gerald Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-durrell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/040/gerald-durrell-9611_corfu_ah-you-may-sit-under-them-yes-they-cast_941046.jpg) > [Christians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. And while it's true that activism is often the outgrowth of holiness and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-deyoung/christians-often-equate-holiness-with-activism-and-spiritual/) [Kevin DeYoung](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-deyoung/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/61b/kevin-deyoung-1086_activism_christians-often-equate-holiness-with-ac_2152397.png) > [“I couldn't take my eyes from those plumes of spray, the churning shards of light. Was this what the old man was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-winton/i-couldn-t-take-my-eyes-from-those-plumes-of-spray-the-churning/) [Tim Winton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-winton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16b/tim-winton-3739_old-man_i-couldn-t-take-my-eyes-from-those-plume_2850406.jpg) > [“It is simply no good trying to keep any thrill: that is the very worst thing you can do. Let the thrill…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis-2/it-is-simply-no-good-trying-to-keep-any-thrill-that-is-the-very-worst/) [C.S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis-2/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bca/c-s-lewis-121_adventure_it-is-simply-no-good-trying-to-keep-any_1478232.jpg) > [“Rieux knew what the old man was thinking at that moment as he wept, and he thought the same: that this world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-camus/rieux-knew-what-the-old-man-was-thinking-at-that-moment-as-he-wept/) [Albert Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-camus/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/103/albert-camus-47_courage_rieux-knew-what-the-old-man-was-thinking_519052.jpg) > [“They'd come back with stories of machines that handed out money and people who picked up dog shit and put it in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-johnson/they-d-come-back-with-stories-of-machines-that-handed-out-money-and/) [Adam Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d2/adam-johnson-7721_computers_they-d-come-back-with-stories-of-machine_2915889.jpg) > [“What the hell time is it?" muttered the old man. He was always an aggressive sleeper. Sleep was one of the things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-shepherd/what-the-hell-time-is-it-muttered-the-old-man-he-was-always-an/) [Jean Shepherd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-shepherd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b53/jean-shepherd-25156_humor_what-the-hell-time-is-it-muttered-the-ol_2111247.jpg) > [“I walked past Malison, up Lower Main to Main and across the road. I didn’t need to look to know he was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/k-ritz/i-walked-past-malison-up-lower-main-to-main-and-across-the-road-i/) [K. Ritz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/k-ritz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e38/k-ritz-32084_adventure_i-walked-past-malison-up-lower-main-to-m_2046012.jpg) > [“You know the one about the old man whose grandson is getting married? Just before the wedding, he calls the boy in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-manette-ansay/you-know-the-one-about-the-old-man-whose-grandson-is-getting-married/) [A. Manette Ansay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-manette-ansay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b8b/a-manette-ansay-44525_getting-married_you-know-the-one-about-the-old-man-whose_1710923.jpg) > [One woman approached me as she walked past and, pointing to her four children who were manfully helping the smallest ones over…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-hoss/one-woman-approached-me-as-she-walked-past-and-pointing-to-her-four/) [Rudolf Hoss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolf-hoss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/910/rudolf-hoss-45496_beautiful_one-woman-approached-me-as-she-walked-pa_1413615.jpg) > [“Remorse overwhelmed the old man. He had indeed been foolish to agree to allow this game to dictate the outcome of their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-b-boyer/remorse-overwhelmed-the-old-man-he-had-indeed-been-foolish-to-agree/) [Dennis B. Boyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-b-boyer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e86/dennis-b-boyer-55717_old-man_remorse-overwhelmed-the-old-man-he-had-i_1748555.jpg) > [“cap to scratch his bald head. ‘Well, you won’t miss the veg because I’ll be bringing you some every week now. I’ve…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosie-clarke/cap-to-scratch-his-bald-head-well-you-won-t-miss-the-veg-because-i-ll/) [Rosie Clarke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosie-clarke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/723/rosie-clarke-130044_apple-pie_cap-to-scratch-his-bald-head-well-you-wo_2147831.jpg) ## Top authors on Old man - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-ernest-hemingway-33795.jpg) Ernest Hemingway 32 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/old-man/ernest-hemingway/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-john-green-51499.jpg) John Green 21 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/old-man/john-green/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-shakespeare-95899.jpg) William Shakespeare 19 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/old-man/william-shakespeare/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-victor-hugo-93504.jpg) Victor Hugo 17 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/old-man/victor-hugo/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-charles-dickens-22226.jpg) Charles Dickens 15 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/old-man/charles-dickens/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-catherine-anderson-21601.jpg) Catherine Anderson 15 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/old-man/catherine-anderson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-paulo-coelho-74345.jpg) Paulo Coelho 14 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/old-man/paulo-coelho/) - [Mark Twain 13 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/old-man/mark-twain/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-cormac-mccarthy-25164.jpg) Cormac McCarthy 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/old-man/cormac-mccarthy/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-douglas-adams-30413.jpg) Douglas Adams 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/old-man/douglas-adams/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-rodney-dangerfield-80610.jpg) Rodney Dangerfield 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/old-man/rodney-dangerfield/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-joseph-heller-53367.jpg) Joseph Heller 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/old-man/joseph-heller/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/old-man/#itemlist", "name": "Old man Quotes", "numberOfItems": 24, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "My father was and is a great journalist. 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Somebody's going to have to say what they really mean and then do what they say they will. All this lying. All this bullshit and pretending. It's just wasting lives, wasting time, everything's just a waste. She was looking at him curiously. That's just the way people are. The way the world is. What are you trying to do, fix the world? I don't want to fix the world. Fuck the world. Just the little part of it that I have to live on. You and that old man. Folks starting babies andd walking off like that's got nothing to do with them. People walking off while you're asleep and never coming back. Leaving a note. A Goddamned note. Old people living a half mile apart and wanting to see each other and dying without doing it. Now that's crazy for you. That's what's crazy.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "William Gay" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-gay/listen-he-said-vehemently-somebody-s-going-to-have-to-say-what-they/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b77/william-gay-17446_old-man_listen-he-said-vehemently-somebody-s-goi_1528567.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b77/william-gay-17446_old-man_listen-he-said-vehemently-somebody-s-goi_1528567.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b77/william-gay-17446_old-man_listen-he-said-vehemently-somebody-s-goi_1528567.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Listen, he said vehemently. 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I guess I’d have to ask all my questions later…when they wouldn’t be so relevant anymore.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ree Drummond" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ree-drummond/c-mon-marlboro-man-shouted-jumping-onto-the-back-of-a-nearby-spray/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d1/ree-drummond-818_old-man_c-mon-marlboro-man-shouted-jumping-onto_1671418.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d1/ree-drummond-818_old-man_c-mon-marlboro-man-shouted-jumping-onto_1671418.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d1/ree-drummond-818_old-man_c-mon-marlboro-man-shouted-jumping-onto_1671418.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“C’mon!” Marlboro Man shouted, jumping onto the back of a nearby spray truck driven by an elderly man. “Hop…” — Ree Drummond", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 8, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Father Brendan Flynn: \"A woman was gossiping with her friend about a man whom they hardly knew - I know none of you have ever done this. That night, she had a dream: a great hand appeared over her and pointed down on her. She was immediately seized with an overwhelming sense of guilt. The next day she went to confession. She got the old parish priest, Father O' Rourke, and she told him the whole thing. 'Is gossiping a sin?' she asked the old man. 'Was that God All Mighty's hand pointing down at me? Should I ask for your absolution? Father, have I done something wrong?' 'Yes,' Father O' Rourke answered her. 'Yes, you ignorant, badly-brought-up female. You have blamed false witness on your neighbor. You played fast and loose with his reputation, and you should be heartily ashamed.' So, the woman said she was sorry, and asked for forgiveness. 'Not so fast,' says O' Rourke. 'I want you to go home, take a pillow upon your roof, cut it open with a knife, and return here to me.' So, the woman went home: took a pillow off her bed, a knife from the drawer, went up the fire escape to her roof, and stabbed the pillow. Then she went back to the old parish priest as instructed. 'Did you gut the pillow with a knife?' he says. 'Yes, Father.' 'And what were the results?' 'Feathers,' she said. 'Feathers?' he repeated. 'Feathers; everywhere, Father.' 'Now I want you to go back and gather up every last feather that flew out onto the wind,' 'Well,' she said, 'it can't be done. I don't know where they went. The wind took them all over.' 'And that,' said Father O' Rourke, 'is gossip!”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "John Patrick Shanley" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-patrick-shanley/father-brendan-flynn-a-woman-was-gossiping-with-her-friend-about-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c9/john-patrick-shanley-13888_differences_father-brendan-flynn-a-woman-was-gossipi_2097626.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c9/john-patrick-shanley-13888_differences_father-brendan-flynn-a-woman-was-gossipi_2097626.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c9/john-patrick-shanley-13888_differences_father-brendan-flynn-a-woman-was-gossipi_2097626.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Father Brendan Flynn: \"A woman was gossiping with her friend about a man whom they hardly knew - I know none…” — John Patrick Shanley", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Read this to yourself. Read it silently. Don't move your lips. Don't make a sound. Listen to yourself. Listen without hearing anything. What a wonderfully weird thing, huh? NOW MAKE THIS PART LOUD! SCREAM IT IN YOUR MIND! DROWN EVERYTHING OUT. Now, hear a whisper. A tiny whisper. Now, read this next line in your best crotchety- old man voice: \"Hello there, sonny. Does your town have a post office?\" Awesome! Who was that? Whose voice was that? It sure wasn't yours! How do you do that? How?! It must've been magic.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bo Burnham" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bo-burnham/read-this-to-yourself-read-it-silently-don-t-move-your-lips-don-t/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/405/bo-burnham-1313_hope_read-this-to-yourself-read-it-silently-d_1519003.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/405/bo-burnham-1313_hope_read-this-to-yourself-read-it-silently-d_1519003.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/405/bo-burnham-1313_hope_read-this-to-yourself-read-it-silently-d_1519003.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Read this to yourself. Read it silently. Don't move your lips. Don't make a sound. Listen to yourself…” — Bo Burnham", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I regret no words,\" Frederic said. \"i love words. and the words i just spoke were the truth. you are a coward, because only a coward would rather defenestrate a helpless old man than face me in a fair fight.\" \"I wasn't gonna defenish-\" \"Defenestrate.\" \"Yeah, I wasn't gonna defenestrate him,\" the winghaired man said. \"I was gonna throw him out the window.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Christopher Healy" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-healy/i-regret-no-words-frederic-said-i-love-words-and-the-words-i-just/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e2/christopher-healy-18883_coward_i-regret-no-words-frederic-said-i-love-w_2257149.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e2/christopher-healy-18883_coward_i-regret-no-words-frederic-said-i-love-w_2257149.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e2/christopher-healy-18883_coward_i-regret-no-words-frederic-said-i-love-w_2257149.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I regret no words,\" Frederic said. \"i love words. and the words i just spoke were the truth. you are a…” — Christopher Healy", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“In confession occurs the break-through to the Cross. The root of all sin is pride, superbia. I want to be my own law, I have a right to my self, my hatred and my desires, my life and my death. The mind and flesh of man are set on fire by pride; for it is precisely in his wickedness that man wants to be as God. Confession in the presence of a brother is the profoundest kind of humiliation. It hurts, it cuts a man down, it is a dreadful blow to pride. To stand there before a brother as a sinner is an ignominy that is almost unbearable. In the confession of concrete sins the old man dies a painful, shameful death before the eyes of a brother. Because this humiliation is so hard we continually scheme to evade confessing to a brother. Our eyes are so blinded that they no longer see the promise and the glory in such abasement.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Dietrich Bonhoeffer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dietrich-bonhoeffer/in-confession-occurs-the-break-through-to-the-cross-the-root-of-all/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b94/dietrich-bonhoeffer-303_death_in-confession-occurs-the-break-through-t_1825034.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b94/dietrich-bonhoeffer-303_death_in-confession-occurs-the-break-through-t_1825034.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b94/dietrich-bonhoeffer-303_death_in-confession-occurs-the-break-through-t_1825034.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In confession occurs the break-through to the Cross. The root of all sin is pride, superbia. I want to be my…” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“It seems like everyone these days is putting on a mask to feel beautiful, trying to fit into some pre-established norms of how we should look. This isn’t only painful, it’s ignorant. Saying like we know, better than nature does, what is beautiful and what is not is like a two-year-old lecturing an old man about patience. Nature’s been creating beauty for millennia and you are part of that creation process. Stop the madness. Stop fighting who you are. Let the mask fall. It’ll be strange at first, yes. But, over time, you’ll see beyond the temporary discomfort of stepping outside social norms and learn to see the beauty you were born with, the beauty you’ve been taught to ignore and cover up. You’ll see beauty that will take your breath away, like a sunset. That’s how beautiful you are—like a sunset, like a forest, like a million fireflies on a calm warm night lighting up the sky. You are made by nature. Nature is wiser in the ways of beauty than cosmetics companies or magazines. Break the spell. Gain back your sanity. Go find that brilliant beauty within every single part of you. Go find the universe in your eyes. Remove that cloak that’s been pulled over your eyes and see yourself for who you really are.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Vironika Tugaleva" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vironika-tugaleva/it-seems-like-everyone-these-days-is-putting-on-a-mask-to-feel/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/178/vironika-tugaleva-2648_beautiful_it-seems-like-everyone-these-days-is-put_2731918.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/178/vironika-tugaleva-2648_beautiful_it-seems-like-everyone-these-days-is-put_2731918.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/178/vironika-tugaleva-2648_beautiful_it-seems-like-everyone-these-days-is-put_2731918.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It seems like everyone these days is putting on a mask to feel beautiful, trying to fit into some…” — Vironika Tugaleva", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Ah, you may sit under them, yes. They cast a good shadow, cold as well-water; but that's the trouble, they tempt you to sleep. And you must never, for any reason, sleep beneath a cypress.' He paused, stroked his moustache, waited for me to ask why, and then went on: 'Why? Why? Because if you did you would be changed when you woke. Yes, the black cypresses, they are dangerous. While you sleep, their roots grow into your brains and steal them, and when you wake up you are mad, head as empty as a whistle.' I asked whether it was only the cypress that could do that or did it apply to other trees. 'No, only the cypress,' said the old man, peering up fiercely at the trees above me as though to see whether they were listening; 'only the cypress is the thief of intelligence. So be warned, little lord, and don't sleep here.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gerald Durrell" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-durrell/ah-you-may-sit-under-them-yes-they-cast-a-good-shadow-cold-as-well/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/040/gerald-durrell-9611_corfu_ah-you-may-sit-under-them-yes-they-cast_941046.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/040/gerald-durrell-9611_corfu_ah-you-may-sit-under-them-yes-they-cast_941046.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/040/gerald-durrell-9611_corfu_ah-you-may-sit-under-them-yes-they-cast_941046.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Ah, you may sit under them, yes. 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To use the older language, we pursue mortification of the old man and the vivification of the new.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Kevin DeYoung" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-deyoung/christians-often-equate-holiness-with-activism-and-spiritual/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/61b/kevin-deyoung-1086_activism_christians-often-equate-holiness-with-ac_2152397.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/61b/kevin-deyoung-1086_activism_christians-often-equate-holiness-with-ac_2152397.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/61b/kevin-deyoung-1086_activism_christians-often-equate-holiness-with-ac_2152397.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Christians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. 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Jun Do never looked. He knew the televisions were huge and there was all the rice you could eat. Yet he wanted no part of it - he was scared that if he saw it with his own eyes, his entire life would mean nothing. Stealing turnips from an old man who'd gone blind from hunger? That would have been for nothing. Sending another boy instead of himself to clean vats at the paint factory? For nothing.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Adam Johnson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-johnson/they-d-come-back-with-stories-of-machines-that-handed-out-money-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d2/adam-johnson-7721_computers_they-d-come-back-with-stories-of-machine_2915889.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d2/adam-johnson-7721_computers_they-d-come-back-with-stories-of-machine_2915889.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d2/adam-johnson-7721_computers_they-d-come-back-with-stories-of-machine_2915889.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“They'd come back with stories of machines that handed out money and people who picked up dog shit and put it…” — Adam Johnson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 19, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“What the hell time is it?\" muttered the old man. He was always an aggressive sleeper. Sleep was one of the things he did best, and he loved it. Some look upon sleep as an unfortunate necessary interruption of life; but there are others who hold that sleep is life, or at least one of the more fulfilling aspects of it, like eating or sex. 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Mulberry Lane cut across from Bell Lane and ran adjacent to Spitalfields Market, and the folk of the surrounding lanes were like a small community, almost a village in the heart of London’s busy East End. Tilly and her husband had been good customers for Peggy until he lost his job on the Docks. It had come as a shock when he’d been arrested for trying to rob a little corner post office and Peggy hadn’t seen Tilly to talk to since; she’d assumed it was because the woman was feeling ashamed of what her husband had done. ‘No, of course not.’ Peggy smiled at him. A wisp of her honey-blonde hair had fallen across her face, despite all her efforts to sweep it up under a little white cap she wore for cooking. ‘I didn’t realise Tilly Barton was in such trouble. I’ll take her a pie over later – she won’t be offended, will she?’ ‘No one in their right mind would be offended by you, Peggy love.’ ‘Thank you, Jim. 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