"The task for me is to not only comprehend the world, but to change the world. I would like to see a world where America lives up to its ideals, and resolves the contradiction between reality and principles."

-- Ronald Takaki

#Reality Quotes #America Quotes #Principles Quotes

“I couldn't be an ingenue today, because the business has changed. I remember when you could dress for a premiere just by putting on a cute top. Now you have to be perfect and fabulous in every way, or you're ridiculed.”
“You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.”
“When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, but there's a safety there.”
“I am a big guy and happen to play a position that requires you to be relatively quick. I can't let up now. I have to work every day to be better next year.”
“God never intended for us to simply be the objects of His love. We are also called to be the instruments of that love in the lives of others.”
“One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.”
“There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.”

Source : The Daily Telegraph, May 23, 1989.
“I suspect that we are all recipients of cosmic love notes. Messages, omens, voices, cries, revelations, and appeals are homogenized into each day's events. If only we knew how to listen, to read the signs.”

Source : Sam Keen (1992). “The passionate life: stages of loving”, Harper San Francisco

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