"When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something."

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Source : John Keble (1870). “Letters of Spiritual Counsel and Guidance”, p.6

John Keble

#Finding Yourself Quotes #Way Quotes #Self Pity Quotes

“I am in competition only with my father and my uncle (Mukesh Bhatt) because they taught me what I know today. I only believe in making movies with integrity,”
“Success for an artist is completed work. Very successful artists complete a lot of work. It's that simple.”
“Do we behave out of fear of punishment, or out of the demands of our heart? For me, it is the latter, as I would hope is true for all adults, thought I know from bitter experience that such is not often the case. To act in a manner designed to catapult you into heaven would seem transparent to a god, any god,for if ones heart is not in allignment with the creator of that heaven, then... what is the point?”
“Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.”
“We hear in these days a great deal respecting rights--the rights of private judgment, the rights of labor, the rights of property, and the rights of man. Rights are grand things, divine things in this world of God's; but the way in which we expound these rights, alas! seems to me to be the very incarnation of selfishness. I can see nothing very noble in a man who is forever going about calling for his own rights. Alas! alas! for the man who feels nothing more grand in this wondrous, divine world than his own rights.”
“Perhaps all human progress stems from the tension between two basic drives: to have just what everyone else has and to have what no one has.”

Source : Judith Stone (1991). “Light Elements: Essays in Science from Gravity to Levity”, Ballantine Books
“If you snub Conscience a few times she will cut your acquaintance.”
“There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.”

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