"Great wealth may be to its owner a blessing or a curse. Alas! I fear it is too often the latter. It hardens the heart, blunts the finer susceptibilities, and transforms into a fiend what under more favourable circumstances might have been a human being."

-- Arnold Bennett

#Heart Quotes #Blessing Quotes #May Quotes

“The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.”

Source : Richard J. Leider (2008). “Repacking Your Bags: Lighten Your Load for the Rest of Your Life: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.339, ReadHowYouWant.com
“To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.”
“Boxing remains an important living metaphor of the struggle for equality.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“I used to play soccer when I was in Morocco, but I was more of a basketball player. I played high school basketball, I played AAU basketball.”
“I don't mind being miserable as long as I'm painting well.”
“I think the thing that would interest me would be to appear in a period piece where you'd get to dress in an elaborate costume and say nothing but just look fabulous and have a fancy role.”

Source : "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview with Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.
“A film that can be described in words is not really a film.”
“Many spiritual seekers who say their wish is to awaken don't actually want what they believe they do. This becomes clear sometimes at the approach to the brink of what feels like a void, where the obliteration of the egoic self seems imminent. With a shocked recognition of what is being asked, the person will recoil. The scale of the loss-the dissolution of the familiar self-is beyond what was bargained for.”

Source : Jan Frazier (2012). “The Freedom of Being: At Ease with What Is”, p.63, Weiser Books

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