"All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up."

-- James A. Baldwin

#Art Quotes #Kindness Quotes #Survival Quotes

“Empathy as a complex emotion is different. It requires awareness of the other person's feelings and of one's own reactions. The appropriate reaction may not be to cry when another person cries, but to reassure them, or even to leave them alone.”
“When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.”
“No shame in saying that I felt a loneliness drifting through me. Funny how it was, everyone perched in their own little world with the deep need to talk, each person with their own tale, beginning in some strange middle point, then trying so hard to tell it all, to have it all make sense, logical and final.”
“I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You want to do what you can while you are on this earth. Otherwise, the alternative is to go shopping.”
“If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed.”

Source : Lal Bahadur Shastri (1967). “Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri commemoration souvenir”
“I enjoy the process of TV; I like the pace of it; I like the continual work.”
“Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.”

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