"It was really bizarre, that Sabzian business. You know I had no interest in being photographed before this incident. But then not just Sabzianâ€”many other people started pretending they were me! One of them actually got married while pretending he was me! My face became publicly recognizable soon after I decided to have a few photographs of me available in public to prevent these sorts of identity thefts. It is really pathetic, if you think of it. Filmmakers and filmmaking is so popular in Iran because all other forms of expression have been denied to people."

-- Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#Thinking Quotes #Expression Quotes #Iran Quotes

“When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.”

Source : Rumi (2017). “Rumi Poetry: 100 Bedtime Verses”, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
“Being a heart throb would be crazy.”
“The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.”

Source : Waverley Root (1996). “Food”, William S. Konecky Associates
“He suffered from paralysis by analysis.”
“The important things are to train hard, and not give upÂ hope.”
“I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often in our house, and I grew up with his sound as well.”
“To be disciplined does not mean being silent, abstaining, or doing only what one thinks one may undertake without risk; it is not the art of eluding responsibility ; it means acting in compliance with orders received, and therefore finding in one's own mind, by effort and reflection, the possibility to carry out such orders. It also means finding in one's own will the energy to face the risks involved in execution.”

Source : "Precepts and Judgments". Book by Ferdinand Foch, 1919.
“Great fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.”

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