""thanks" in MaoriGrateful living: an alchemic operation of converting "disgraceful" things into grateful events."

-- Raimon Panikkar

#Gratitude Quotes #Grateful Quotes #Events Quotes

“Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.”

Source : Irving Stone (1987). “The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo”, Signet
“Yet, beauty cannot be forgotten, Eternal Wisdom can never die.”
“And besides; the problem of land, at its worst, is a bye one; distribute the earth as you will, the principal question remains inexorable, Who is to dig it? Which of us, in brief word, is to do the hard and dirty work for the rest, and for what pay?”
“Imagine! It is the real power of a book--not what is on the page, but what happens when a reader takes the pages in, makes it part of himself. That is the definition of literature.”

Source : Matthew Pearl (2015). “The Last Bookaneer: A Novel”, p.12, Penguin
“I challenge every business person in America who has ever complained about the failure of the welfare system to try to hire somebody off welfare. And try hard.”
“I've always been a target. Everyone looks me and says, 'I'm not going to let that Asian kid embarrass me. I'm going to go at him.' That's how it's been my whole life.”
“Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.”
“You scratch a preacher a little bit, and you'll get an actor.”

Source : "Q&A – John Cullum (Lee Garner Sr. of Lucky Strike)". Interview with Ashley Shaw, www.amc.com.

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