"Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself."

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Source : Alexander McCall Smith (2010). “The Double Comfort Safari Club”, p.211, Anchor

Alexander McCall Smith

#Joy Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Finding Yourself Quotes

“To me, voluntary simplicity means integration and awareness in my life.”
“To grasp life and meaning, we assume constancy where it does not exist. We name experiences, emotions, and subjective states and assume that what is named is as enduring as its name. Human beings blessed and cursed with consciousness - especially consciousness of their own being - think in terms of names, words, symbols.”
“It's extremely difficult to come across quality material. It's a competitive world.”

Source : "Romany Malco Chats w/ S&A About 'Think Like A Man,' Picking Projects, Black Cinema & More!". Interview with Vanessa Martinez, www.indiewire.com. May 7, 2012.
“It's not the increasing competition; it's going back to real work that most of us complain about.”
“If you want something done, ask a busy person.”
“You'll never learn to act in Hollywood. Not in a thousand years.”

Source : "Child of Fate - Margaret Sullavan". Book by Lawrence J. Quirk (p. 77), 1986.
“The ultimate Mystery of being, the ultimate Truth, is Love. This is the essential structure of reality. When Dante spoke of the 'love which moves the sun and the other stars', he was not using a metaphor, but was describing the nature of reality. There is in Being an infinite desire to give itself in love and this gift of Self in love is for ever answered by a return of love....and so the rhythm of the universe is created.”
“Orthodox criticism ... is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and sensitive people are the most talented, having the most imagination and sympathy, these are the first ones to get killed off.”

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