"Luxuries are easy to take up but very difficult to give up"

-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Giving Up Quotes #Luxury Quotes #Easy Quotes

“You cannot not communicate.”
“We must reason in natural philosophy not from what we hope, or even expect, but from what we perceive.”

Source : Humphry Davy (1840). “The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy (etc.)”, p.303
“If you are doing what you love then you're doing what is right. Desire and passion resonate with your body, mind and soul. When you're passionate you don't question, judge, criticize, second-guess, or doubt. It's that passion that will fuel the fire to overcome challenges.”
“In our minds lives the madonna image--the all-embracing, all- giving tranquil mother of a Raphael painting, one child at her breast, another at her feet; a woman fulfilled, one who asks nothing more than to nurture and nourish. This creature of fantasy, this myth, is the model--the unattainable ideal against which women measure, not only their performance, but their feelings about being mothers.”
“Since I was 15 I've felt kinda like... an old man.”

Source : "Sardonic youth" by Andrew Male, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2007.
“In every artist we can perceive a man with both a message and a method. His message may be innate in him, but his method he has to acquire from others.”

Source : Brander Matthews (1919). “The principles of playmaking: and other discussions of the drama”
“I did a film a long time ago with a shaved head and I had the ugliest looking head in the world.”
“Love is the answer At least for most of the questions in my heart Why are we here and where do we go And how come it's so hard”

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