"Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity."

-- Brother Lawrence

#Thinking Quotes #Vanity Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.”
“The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.”
“How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. It shines on a good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!”
“A writer with her work needs to be like a dog with a bone all the time. She needs to know where she's hidden it. Where she's stored the good stuff. She needs to keep gnawing at it, even after all the meat seems to be gone. When a student of mine says (okay, whines) that she's impatient, or tired, or the worst: isn't it good enough? this may be harsh, but she loses just a little bit of my respect. Because there is no room for impatience, or exhaustion, or self-satisfaction, or laziness. All of these really mean, simply, that the inner censor has won the day.”
“I am always frustrated when I see situations that could have been handled simpler.”
“Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.”
“It's a scary thing, when a person you admire is suddenly revealed to be absolutely, truly human.”
“If there is no dance, there is not music.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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