"When you see anyone complaining of such and such a person's ill-nature and bad temper, know that the complainant is bad-tempered, forasmuch as he speaks ill of that bad-tempered person, because he alone is good-tempered who is quietly forbearing towards the bad-tempered and ill-natured."

-- Rumi

#Complaining Quotes #Speak Quotes #Temper Quotes

“Meaning arises from loving life, not from goals or narratives.”
“But I keep going on with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you to hear it, as I will hear yours too if I ever get the chance, if I meet you or if you escape, in the future or in heaven or in prison or underground, some other place. What they have in common is that they're not here. By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are.”
“We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.”
“It's difficult to do that internally, because you're flying five, six hours.”
“I am openly pro-prosecution and make no bones about it. I don't think there are enough people out there sticking up for victims.”

Source : "Making a killing on murder cases / Dominick Dunne reinvents himself" by Hugh Hart, www.sfgate.com. June 9, 2002.
“I don't like the word soon because you don't know when it's going to sneak up on you and turn into NOW. Or maybe it'll be the kind of soon that never happens.”

Source : Kathryn Erskine (2012). “Mockingbird”, p.28, Usborne Publishing Ltd
“It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.”
“And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused.”

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