"It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world."

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Source : Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.18, Golgotha Press

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“Fighting, and the employment of force, even for the right cause, will not bring about good results. The oppressed who have right on their side, must not take that right by force; the evil would continue. Hearts must be changed. The rich must wish to give! Life in man should be like a flame, warming all with whom it comes into contact. The spiritually awakened are like to bright torches in the sight of God, they give light and comfort to their fellows.”
“Communism has been the greatest and bloodiest illusion that humanity ever bore”

Source : Corriere della Sera Magazine, March 09, 2006.
“I'm less interested in what people think think and more interested in how they came to think it and how they maintain it as valid.”
“In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.”
“One can only hope the person you love will make you the best version of yourself.”
“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.”

Source : "The Use of Life" by John Lubbock, (Ch. IV), 1894.
“Heroes come in all sizes, and you don't have to be a giant hero. You can be a very small hero. It's just as important to understand that accepting self-responsibi lity for the things you do, having good manners, caring about other people-these are heroic acts. Everybody has the choice of being a hero or not being a hero every day of their lives.”

Source : "Of Myth And Men". Interview with Bill Moyers, content.time.com. April 18, 1999.
“Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them.”

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