"Literature seemed to be everything then. People looked to it for the strength to live, for guidance, for revelation."

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Ryszard Kapuscinski

#People Quotes #Literature Quotes #Guidance Quotes

“The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. We now have a mainstream press whose news agenda is increasingly influenced by this netherworld.”

Source : "The idiot culture". Carl Bernstein, The New Republic, June 8, 1992.
“If we truly worship God, acknowledging and adoring his infinite worth, we find ourselves impelled to make him known to others, in order that they may worship him too. Thus worship leads to witness, and witness in its turn to worship, in a perpetual circle.”
“God looked through eternity past and He saw you and He chose to reach out and redeem you by His own grace. It's hard to imagine that kind of love.”

Source : James MacDonald (2011). “Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard”, p.114, Moody Publishers
“I understood immediately that to get success I had to make for the front door, not for the back one.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve.”
“People like to think the creative process is romantic. The artist drifts to sleep at night, to be awakened by the subliminal echoes of his or her next brilliant idea. The truth, for me at least, is that creativity is primarily the result of hard work and study.”
“Mind alone is the cause of the bondage or freedom of the soul. By the attachment of the mind to the world we become bound; by the devotion of the mind to God presence within as the Soul of every soul, we become free.”
“I was worried about my mom more than I was worried about the president. And then I was worried about the president, and then I was worried about myself.”

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