"When you give, give with joy and smiling."

-- Joseph Joubert

#Giving Quotes #Joy Quotes

“Ever since the Tim Burton Batman of 1989, it has been de rigueur in movies to focus on the freaky alienation aspect of the superhero's life: This is how talented people make movies for 14-year-olds while retaining their self-respect.”
“Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death...to observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up-never. That is a most gloomy thing for contemplation; it's like manure. Just as manure fertilizes the plants and so on, so the contemplation of death and the acceptance of death is very highly generative of creating life. You'll get wonderful things out of that.”
“It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished.”

Source : William H. Whyte (2012). “City: Rediscovering the Center”, p.109, University of Pennsylvania Press
“Some nights, alone, he thinks of her, and some nights, alone, she thinks of him. Some night these thoughts, separated by miles and time zones, occur at the same objective moment, and Ray and Mirabelle are connected without ever knowing it.”
“In the U.S., too many yogurts are filled with corn syrup, preservatives, artificial this and that. To me, this is poison.”
“Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.”
“I'd made a long list of exceptions to cover the area between "ignoring her completely" and "abducting her at knifepoint.”
“Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.”

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