"If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied! [It., Se a ciascun l'interno affanno Si leggesse in fronte scritto, Quanti mai, che invidia fanno, Ci farebbero pieta!]."

-- Pietro Metastasio

#Grief Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Inward Quotes

“Injuries made me a believer in cross-training.”
“There may be luck in getting a good job-but there's no luck in keeping it.”
“When people come together too young, they try to become one person. As you get older, you realize that you don't want to become one person because then you lose the person you are.”

Source : Interview with Nora Ephron, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 2000.
“Between parts I was too old for and roles that were too overwhelming, out of reach then for my voice. I carved out a niche with the Wagnerian repertoire since I am attracted by its theatrical intensity.”
“I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day.”
“Gratefulness is the gallantry of a heart ready to rise to the opportunity a given moment offers.”
“I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a one-page summary of Robinson Crusoe and I am so sorry I do not have it any more; it was at that moment I became an author.”
“A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.”

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