"Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods."

-- Diogenes Laertius

#Want Quotes #Said Quotes

“But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.”

Source : "How 'Baseball Wives' star Anna Benson keeps 12-year marriage interesting". www.foxnews.com. January 17, 2012.
“Did you know...that when you walk past a flower, whether it be in somebody's garden or on a vacant hillside, the flower will always smile at you. The most polite way to respond, I've been told, is to cheerfully return the smile.”
“My life has changed because somebody fed my family on Thanksgiving when I was eleven years old. It wasn't the food that changed me, it was the fact that a stranger cared. That's what changed my life. That made me the person I am today and have been for the last 37 years. All that came out of that, that simple act of getting a result.”
“Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind.”
“Being on top of the world doesn't mean anything unless you know what it's like to be at the bottom.”
“The American independent cinema is as formulaic as Hollywood and one genre is what you might call the 'inaction movie'. The setting is invariably a decaying town in a regional backwater where a catalytic stranger or returning native meets up with a group of sad, eccentric outsiders.”

Source : "Nothing happens, but..." by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2004.
“But often times, I feel like I'm so blessed, it's not fair. That what I'm doing is not contributing to the good of the world.”

Source : "What Made Ginnifer Goodwin 'Freak The Fudge Out?'". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.yahoo.com. February 7, 2013.
“I have compassion, I've told you people that over and over again. Enforcing the law overrides my compassion.”

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