"Preach by example of your lives rather than by words. Example is the very best sermon."

-- Rose Philippine Duchesne

#Example Quotes #Sermons Quotes

“To be happy you have to know what you really want. After all, you can never have enough of what you didn't want in the first place. True happiness isn't a thing or a commodity, it's something you cultivate and share.”
“[The photograph] is the object itself... [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model of which it is the reproduction; it is the model.”

Source : André Bazin (2005). “What is Cinema?”, p.14, Univ of California Press
“She's different from the girls I'm used to dating. She doesn't get tired of my stories and jokes or expect me to start reading her mind. She doesn't want me to dress better or put highlights in my hair or serious up. I'm not a lifestyle accessory to her. I'm a necessity. I'm the guy that's going to crack open her cocoon. She doesn't need to change me - she needs me to change her. At least until her little butterfly wings get strong enough to fly away.”

Source : Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.145, Scholastic UK
“Nobody can be forced to commit an act of villainy. You can't push anybody into the mud; people always step into it themselves.”

Source : Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax
“I break my back for music because it's something that I love, but I'm not going to break my back for a bank. I wouldn't want to be an ATM repairman; there are some things that just aren't worth it.”
“I always tell other people to protect against the downside, and not risk roughing on new ventures, but I never stuck to that rule myself.”
“There are still places to go, there are still dinners, there are still parties, and you can still get dressed up. That's part of having fun in fashion.”
“But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.”

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