"...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying."

-- Rohinton Mistry

#Mother Quotes #Space Quotes #Laughing Quotes

“Once you feel the desire to engage, think about what you're good at and what you can contribute. It's about breaking down the idea that there are activists and ordinary people.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“I think work really is a life saver, because it carries you forward, which is good.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The dead don't bear a grudge nor seek a blessing. The dead don't rest uneasy. Only the living.”

Source : Margaret Laurence (2016). “The Stone Angel”, p.165, Head of Zeus
“In the native world, major gods come in trios, duos, and groups. It is the habit of non-natives to discover the supreme being, the one and only head god, a habit lent to them by monotheism.”
“We know what you want to accomplish... The real question is, 'what are you willing to push through the dip for?' What are you willing to stand up for, bleed for, commit to and generally be unreasonable about? Because that's what's going to actually get done.”
“You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.”
“Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle - that's my map of Africa.”
“My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but you really need to be a little bit arrogant to think that what you have to say is good enough to justify the expense of hundreds of thousands - now millions of dollars - to make an episode of the TV show.”

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