"Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects oneâ€™s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity. Enter again into yourself."

-- Saint Augustine

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“Remember anything you want that's valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.”
“Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,--I mean good-nature,--are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.”

Source : John Dryden (1868). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: With Life and Critical Dissertation”, p.185
“Well, my intention is to make work about being uncomfortable. About being in a world that isn't always the world you want to be part of. I talk a lot about the free fall, the moment in the scene where gravity takes over, and the beautiful awkwardness when gravity wins. Gravity is hilarious. Gravity always wins.”
“So it is useless to evade reality, because it only makes it more virulent in the end. But instead, look steadfastly into the slit, pin-pointed, malignant eyes of reality: as an old-hand trainer dominates his wild beasts. Take it by the scruff of the neck, and shake the evil intent out of it; till it rattles out harmlessly, like gall bladder stones, fossilized on the floor.”
“I am here today to again apologize for the personal mistakes I have made and the embarrassment I have caused. I make this apology to my neighbors and my constituents, but I make it particularly to my wife, Huma.”

Source : "In Politics: Weiner's Fall And Bachmann's Rise". Interview with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. June 17, 2011.
“My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.”
“Whiskey is by far the most popular of all remedies that won't cure a cold.”
“Challenge is the core and the mainspring of all human activity. If there's an ocean, we cross it; if there's a disease, we cure it; if there's a wrong, we right it; if there's a record, we break it; and finally, if there's a mountain, we climb it.”

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