"People who carry a musical soul about them are, I think, more receptive than others. They smile more readily. One feels in them a pleasant propensity toward the lesser sins, a pleasing readiness also to admit the possibility that on occasion they may be in the wrong--they may be mistaken."

-- Catherine Drinker Bowen

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Soul Quotes

“But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I've got the chance to travel the world, seeing how a lot of little kids grow up - my life wasn't so bad.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“..when, in my philosophical disquisitions, I deny a providence and a future state, I undermine not the foundations of society, but advance principles, which they themselves, upon their own topics, if they argue consistently, must allow to be solid and satisfactory.”
“The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.”

Source : Robert Bresson (1977). “Notes on cinematography”
“The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.”
“The best advice I can give you about falling is to never land.”
“I'd rather be a boy playing with a paper plane, than to be a grown man playing with a woman's heart.”
“I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.”
“But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: â€œThis is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.”

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