"This evolution towards a real responsibility for others is sometimes blocked by fear. It is easier to stay on the level of a pleasant way of life in which we keep our freedom and our distance. But that means that we stop growing and shut ourselves up in our own small concerns and pleasures."

-- Jean Vanier

#Distance Quotes #Real Quotes #Mean Quotes

“I was initially a leading man, but only on television.”
“They make their fortune who are stout and wise, Wit rules the heavens, discretion guides the skies. [Lat., Che sovente addivien che'l saggio e'l forte. Fabro a se stesso e di beata sorte.]”
“Actors and writers need to come back to the theater because it's a place where you can learn. You have to pay your dues, and people who haven't paid their dues in the theater, I think, have a hard time creating a whole career.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why? Because so many girls are wonderful. I imagine hundreds of men have called their loves wonderful today, and it's only noon. You couldn't be something that hundreds of others are.”
“Painting should educate and enrich. Modern painting merely offers a split-second emotion: You see it, you have an instant reaction and move on. Instead, real painting can be looked at over and over again and each time it has something new.”
“I had no friends. I worried a lot.”
“The infectious values and myths transmitted by bad sportswriters may be the deadliest words in the paper.”

Source : Robert Lipsyte (1975). “Sportsworld: an American dreamland”, Crown
“Our life is all grounded and rooted in love, and without love we may not live.”

Source : Julian of Norwich (2013). “SHOWING OF LOVE”, p.117, Lulu.com

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