"It's not the sugar that makes the tea sweet, but the stirring."

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Source : Sam Levenson (2016). “In One Era and Out the Other: A Life's Journey”, p.64, Open Road Media

Sam Levenson

#Wisdom Quotes #Sweet Quotes #Tea Quotes

“I have never feared that the revolution would be engendered by the universities; but that at them a whole generation of revolutionaries must be formed, unless the evil is restrained, seems to me certain.... The greatest and consequently most urgent evil now is the press.... All journals, pamphlets in Germany must be under a censorship.”
“Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.”

Source : Robert James Waller (2013). “The Bridges Of Madison County”, p.39, Random House
“Getting along with others is the essence of getting ahead, success being linked with cooperation.”
“That guy just cut right in front of me. But I'm not going to let it bother me. No. I'm on my way to work and I decided it doesn't matter who wants to cut in front of my lane today. I'm not going to let it bother me one bit. Once I get to work, find myself a parking space, if somebody wants to jump ahead of me and take it, I'm going to let them.”
“Having women work with men is like having a grizzly bear work with salmon . . . dipped in honey.”
“I feel like the luckiest girl in the world. I have the best family and fans in the world!”
“My prayers seem to be more of an attitude than anything else. I indulge in very little lip service, but ask the Great Creator silently, daily, and often many times a day, to permit me to speak to Him through the three great Kingdoms of the world which He has created - the animal, mineral, and vegetable Kingdoms - to understand their relations to each other, and our relations to them and to the Great God who made all of us. I ask Him daily and often momently to give me wisdom, understanding, and bodily strength to do His will; hence I am asking and receiving all the time.”
“I think it's very repressive for a woman to be constantly told that she has to make films about women to better represent women, but then the reverse is not found.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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