"The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope."

-- John Lancaster Spalding

#Vanity Quotes #Despair Quotes #Doctrine Quotes

“I'm interested in directing attention and focus, explored through playing cello.”

Source : "Meet TED Fellow Joshua Roman, 26 year-old Virtuoso Cellist". Interview with Tom Rielly, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2011.
“Im living as an artist, and thats a staggering feeling, its a total luxury. And because you have this amazing chance, with so much freedom, Im determined to make something that is worth that. I feel this responsibility - to create something that makes an audience feel, which takes them somewhere. But thats very hard to achieve.”
“All the best things and treasures of this world are not to be produced by each generation for itself; but we are all intended, not to carve our work in snow that will melt, but each and all of us to be continually rolling a great white gathering snow-ball, higher and higher, larger and larger, along the Alps of human power.”
“Life ain't all beer and skittles, and more's the pity; but what's the odds, so long as you're happy?”

Source : George du Maurier (2015). “Trilby”, p.17, Booklassic
“Oh, I am such a little piggy. Everyone is always mad at me because I eat so much. They're like, 'How are you so skinny?' I eat more than my husband!”
“Pop art is for everyone.”
“Back on shore everyone was pretty messed up, but the owner/captain was by far the worst off. He ended up drunk for a week, though the only thing he ever said was "So?" The boat's gone. "So?" Your mate's dead. "So?" Hey at least you're alive. "So?" An awful word but it does harden you. It hardened me.”
“I found myself in the middle of a race riot when I was about 14 years old, and I found someone pointing a gun at me and telling me to run or they'd shoot me.”

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