"You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer."

-- A. Powell Davies

#Heart Quotes #Character Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I came to acting in a very circuitous way.”
“I think with The Magicians, the Harry Potter and Narnia influences are obviously there.”

Source : "Why Eliot on The Magicians Is the Fantasy Character We've All Been Waiting For". Interview with Kelsie Gibson, www.popsugar.com. February 9, 2016.
“The advantage that my children have is that my children are encountering the nicest white people that America has ever produced. Letâ€™s hope America keeps producing nicer white people.”
“To me, then, true criticism consists in trying to find out the intrinsic worth of the thing itself, and not in attributing a quality to that thing. You attribute a quality to an environment, to an experience, only when you want to derive something from it, when you want to gain or to have power or happiness. Now this destroys true criticism. Your desire is perverted through attributing values, and therefore you cannot see clearly. Instead of trying to see the flower in its original and entire beauty, you look at it through coloured glasses, and therefore you can never see it as it is.”
“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.”
“Blind obedience is a sure sign of trouble. The likelihood of religion becoming evil is greatly diminished when there is freedom for individual thinking and when honest inquiry is encouraged.”
“Some say if only my fears and doubts will leave then I will get to work. But instead you should get to work and then your fears and doubts will leave.”
“A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.”

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