"Many messages are just thanking a stranger for a kindness...I love those ones, because I imagine everyone else reading them feels encouraged by such examples of humanity and generosity and tenderness. And if they encourage us to reach out to strangers more often, that's a good thing."

-- Sophie Blackall

#Kindness Quotes #Reading Quotes #Generosity Quotes

“Of all the creative acts performed by the artist, the most directly legible is drawing... it is the act that is most directly and spontaneously governed by his nervous and muscular system.”

Source : René Huyghe (1962). “Art and the Spirit of Man”, London : Thames and Hudson
“The caviar was very high quality. I made an acting decision on the spot that Ismay was a big eater.”
“I found myself immediately attracted to Pope John Paul II when, upon his election to the Papacy, his published speeches invariably called attention to the need for recognizing the dignity of the human being as a child of God.”
“The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.”
“You can't really micro-manage. You'll never make the movie in 52 days, if you micro-manage. If you do that, you take the creativity away from people because people just really quickly become disinterested when they're always being told how to do it.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity.”

Source : Isobelle Carmody (2011). “The Keeping Place: Obernewtyn Chronicles: Book Four”, p.701, A&C Black
“Every country has an aspect to it that rubs up people the wrong way.”
“The highest ideal of cure is the rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of health; that is, the lifting and annihilation of the disease in its entire extent in the shortest, most reliable, and least disadvantageous way, according to clearly realizable principles.”

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