"We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued; it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented."

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

#Gratitude Quotes #Real Quotes #Hands Quotes

“We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it.”

Source : Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books
“If a man is a quitter, I'd rather find out in practice than in a game. I ask for all a player has so I'll know later what I can expect.”
“One manâ€™s â€œuglyâ€ is another manâ€™s â€œbeautiful.”
“There wasn't a moment where I got into cars. It wasn't a conscience decision or something that came later, it was there since I was born. I just love it.”
“Politicians are like weather vanes. Our job is to make the wind blow.”
“In a sense, every work you do is a self-portrait because your paintings always reveal more about you than about your subject. Your experience of something, not the something itself, is the true underlying subject of every work you do.”
“I'm not leaving until you tell me why you followed me. I know I'm a fascinating guy, but this is starting to feel like an unhealthy obsession.”
“No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.”

Source : Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.82, New York Review of Books

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