Quotes by Type Fours

A Batch of Quotes to be sorted later, all from
Chapter 10 -- Type four: The Individualist of The Wisdom of The Enneagram by Riso and Hudson

"All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.  All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up."  ~ James Baldwin

"After all, perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent."  ~ Albert Camus

"Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind."  ~ Marcel Proust

"It is better to drink of deep griefs than to taste shallow pleasures." ~  William Hazlitt

"It takes a genius to whine appealingly."  ~  F. Scott Fitzgerald

Sacco on the Illusions of Status

From Praying With Saint Mark's Gospel, published by Magnificat

"The kingdom of heaven in not about status.  Our rank, our titles, our possessions, our popularity will all mean less than nothing in the next life.  Only our openness to love, coupled with our capacity to forgive, will determine our experience of heaven.  In a place of perfect happiness and joy, how can one person be happier or more important than the next?
Suffering will come to us all, but once we have cleansed ourselves of our sins and petty jealousies, we will be able to finally sit with Christ at the heavenly banquet.  And none of us will be concerned about the status of the seating arrangement."

~ Jack Sacco, an award-winning author, whose book Where the Birds Never Sing was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and his latest novel is The Resurrection Sequence.

Sometimes I am surprised to find I need this reminder myself. :S  Praise be Jesus the Lord loves a contrite heart! :)