"PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another."

--

Ambrose Bierce

#Mind Quotes #Belief Quotes #Preference Quotes

“Most of the stress people experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept.”
“In the absence of fear there is little faith.”
“I did not feel 'evil' when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.”
“It could be confusing to people, but it's very simple to me, and it always has been - creating the thing that I want. In music, I don't think there's any need to be an all-rounder and do everything yourself. Play to your strengths and do what you feel. Or do whatever the material itself demands.”
“When a woman makes the choice to marry, to have children, in one way her life begins but in another way it stops.Â You build a life of details.Â You become a mother, a wife and you stop and stay steady so that your children can move. And when they leave they take your life of details with them. And then you're expected to move again only you don't remember what moves you because no one has asked in so long. Not even yourself.”

Source : "The Bridges of Madison County". www.imdb.com. 1995.
“I treat winning and losing exactly the same. I see them both as necessary steps to get us where we are going. Big failures big lessons little failures little lessons.”
“Of course my jokes are in poor taste, inappropriate, and confused; they reveal my lack of security. But that is because I have no respect for myself.”
“Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love... true love never dies. You remember that, boy. You remember that. Doesn't matter if it's true or not. You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in.”

Source : "Secondhand Lions". www.imdb.com. 2003.

You may also like: