"A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience."

-- Cesare Pavese

#What Matters Quotes #Suffering Quotes #World Quotes

“We [chefs] are competitive, although I think you need to be careful with competitiveness as it can become quite negative.”
“He who improvises can never make a perfect line of poetry.”
“I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it's not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days.”
“Giving interviews is the most difficult thing about being a gymnast.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“After I die, I shall return to earth as a gatekeeper of a bordello and I won't let any of you enter.”
“I have this theory that people are actually really hungry for sonic space and understanding words, and I think that people are ready to look back and actually appreciate some of what came before. And then you really do have the entire movement that I'm just going to call feminist, because I am a feminist. I think the education of young girls and women about what came before has started and I think that the knowledge of Fanny is part of that.”
“Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. This is not just a dream, but a necessity.”
“As a teenager, even as a younger girl, I had some depression but no one really noticed that it was depression nor did I know in those days that that's what it was but I did feel different from other people.”

Source : "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. October 14, 2005.

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