"The mind and spirit of man advance when he is tried by suffering. ... so suffering and tribulation free man from the petty affairs of this worldly life until he arrives at a state of complete detachment."

-- Abdu'l-BahÃ¡

#Book Quotes #Men Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.”

Source : Anna SEWARD (1799). “Original Sonnets, on various subjects; and Odes paraphrased from Horace, by Anna Seward. Second edition”, p.14
“I am too old and stiff-necked to change my memories now.”
“...Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed.”
“The optimist in me wants to believe sexuality will eventually become like handwriting: thereâ€™s no right way and wrong way to do it. Weâ€™re all just wired differently. It's also worth noting that when you meet someone, you never bother to ask if heâ€™s right or left-handed. After all: does it really matter to anyone other than the person holding the pen?”
“To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder.”
“[While shooting close-ups] you study real eyes, you study how the light reflects in them, you study the back of the eye, you study the way irises reflect emotion. You go into great scientific detail.”
“As much as I don't want to admit it, I really am a people pleaser. If I throw a party at my house, it's hard for me to relax. I'm too obsessed with whether everyone's having a good time.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think there is just a vein of humanity that really loves animals and really loves to read about them.”

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