"Succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear YOU. Say to suffering, 'I will that you shall become a pleasure,' and it will prove to be such-- and even more than a pleasure, it will be a blessing."

-- Eliphas Levi

#Blessing Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Lions Quotes

“Some people only work to recorded music because it's so reliable and exactly the same every time, which is exactly why I don't.”
“Ive been making music since I was 14, but for a while, I was afraid to perform.”
“At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality and justice, the differences between the sexes are being rediscovered.”

Source : Carol GILLIGAN (2009). “In a Different Voice”, p.22, Harvard University Press
“The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.”

Source : Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.65, Harmony
“And I think more than anything else, I know when I go to bed that no one's working harder doing what I'm doing, and I think, quite frankly, simply that hard work at some point was gonna pay off.”
“Rage keeps the person who feels it company. It moves into the hollows left by grief and loss, and turns inside you like a dark furred animal that grows and fills you; it kills off loneliness and takes its place.”

Source : Paula Sharp (2001). “I Loved You All: A Novel”, Hyperion
“The market, if it can be kept honest and competitive, does provide very strong incentives for work effort and productive contributions. In their absence, society would thrash about for alternative incentives-some unreliable, like altruism; some perilous like collective loyalty; some intolerable, like coercion or oppression.”
“In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.”

Source : "Roger Ebert still has questions for Casey Affleck". www.interviewmagazine.com. September 22, 2010.

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