"Kindness is no common virtue. It is a rare gift."

-- David Samuels

#Kindness Quotes #Common Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“I went to a lot of theatre schools, got a lot of training, did a lot of repertory where you do a different play every night. I took a lot of voice, movement, and acting classes.”
“Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.”

Source : "Slouching Towards Bethlehem". Book by Joan Didion, "On Self-Respect", 1968.
“I think this would be a good time for a beer.”
“To attempt to commit the Church to social and political programs may be a short cut . . to escape from the more difficult and costly responsibility of submitting ourselves to those deeper changes of disposition and outlook which are in the end a much more powerful revolutionary force.”
“Dieting by portion control doesnt work because one is constantly fighting addictive drives.”
“Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as the street. If we do not tear out this disease by the roots we shall have with us a bourgeoisie that is in no way connected with the reality of our life...”

Source : Tayeb Salih (1991). “Season of Migration to the North”, p.119, Heinemann
“The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.”

Source : Claude Elwood Shannon, Warren Weaver (1962). “The mathematical theory of communication”
“Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.”

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