"If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding."

-- Zora Neale Hurston

#Feelings Quotes #Abuse Quotes #Doing Things For Others Quotes

“Community connectedness is not just about warm fuzzy tales of civic triumph. In measurable and well-documented ways, social capital makes an enormous difference in our lives...Social capital makes us smarter, healthier, safer, richer, and better able to govern a just and stable democracy.”
“The best musicians in the world were raised on the same kind of music I was raised on and that is black, soulful, authoritative, ultra-tight, ferocious, uppity, defiant music that from the Howlin' Wolf, the Muddy Waters, the Lightnin' Hopkins, the Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, and Little Richard.”
“I was largely drinking to forget where I was. When youâ€™re in a place like Vietnam, you get to a point where you donâ€™t care any more. Youâ€™re in a place thatâ€™s foreign to you, and you know for a fact that many people there hate you and will kill you if they get the chance. It really does something to your mind to know that many of the people living around you donâ€™t like you and want you to die.”
“No joy so great but runneth to an end,No hap so hard but may in fine amend.”

Source : Saint Robert Southwell (1856). “The poetical works of the Rev. Robert Southwell”, p.47
“Empty the pond to get the fish.”

Source : Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.44, New York Review of Books
“Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources”
“They think because I'm small, they can do what they want to do to me. But I'm not weak. If I lower my shoulder and they lower they're shoulder, they're going to go down.”
“I think I did not like him [Corey Feldman] in Goonies. He's kind of a similar character in Stand By Me isn't he? Well I liked him in Stand By Me.”

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