"What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened ... Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut ... Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out! ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts."

--

Source : Eleanor Porter (2003). “Pollyanna”, ePenguin

Eleanor Porter

#Encouragement Quotes #Real Quotes #Heart Quotes

“When my father would come home from the track after a good day, the whole room would light up; it was fairyland. But when he lost, it was black. In our house, it was always either a wake ... or a wedding.”
“I've been very lucky not to have turned down too many roles that I've later regretted.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“It's just a wonderful experience and it's fun when you make a film and people go to it to emote and in my picture you hear the audible sobbing and then you hear the audible laughter and then you see people leaving the theater with a little bit of spring in their step. It's just great to be part of one that lasts a long time.”

Source : Source: www.cyinterview.com
“When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom,”
“The avalanche of time sweeps everything before it. Every individual instant hurtles into oblivion, drowning out the obliteration of the instant immediately preceding it, and then it too disappears under the onslaught of the next and the next and the next. When the avalanche has shuddered past for a long enough time, the perception of the past evolves. Distant events grow beyond mere history and take on the weight of legend.”
“Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?”
“I think governments are the cancer of civilization.”

Source : "Rapping the Vote With Chuck D". Interview with Jeff Chang, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2004.
“How bad does it have to be before you do something about it?”

You may also like: