"Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides."

-- Anne Lamott

#Gratitude Quotes #Heart Quotes #Joy Quotes

“We have it all. We have great diversity of people, we have a wonderful land, and we have great possibilities. So all those things combined there's nowhere else I'd rather be.”
“People need to believe that they can participate fully in the decisions that affect their lives and have a stake in the societies in which they live”
“I have realized sometimes I do better working under a crazy schedule. It gives me less time to overthink things and forces me to be present.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Since there must be chimeras, why is not perfection the chimera of all men?”
“I had to learn that a good actor, like an iceberg, reveals only a small part of his ability on the surface. You suggest; you don't serve on a platter. You hold back. You don't expose it all to view. That's the way to put the audience's imagination to work.”

Source : Lilli Palmer (1975). “Change lobsters, and dance: an autobiography”
“In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.”
“Havin' fun while freedom fightin' must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water - which is known to have lithium in it - because it goes all the way back to Sam Houston, surely the most lovable, the most human, and the funniest of all the great men this country has ever produced.”
“There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer social life than they have now. They enjoyed a society organic, satisfying and whole, not mixed and thinned with the life of town, city and nation as it now is.”

Source : Rose Wilder Lane (1985). “Old Home Town”, p.1, U of Nebraska Press

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