"I began to enjoy my own generosity; I felt the pleasure of pleasing others, especially as this was accompanied by money-power. I was paying for them; they were grateful, they had to be; and they could no longer see me as a failure."

-- Hanif Kureishi

#Grateful Quotes #Pleasing Others Quotes #Generosity Quotes

“From time to time, I am asked--by people with an alarming lack of tact--why a man like myself, who has demonstrated an affinity for working with children, has none of his own. Other people's children are quite enough, thank you.”
“Garbo still belongs to that moment in cinema when capturing the human face still plunged audiences into the deepest ecstasy, when one literally lost oneself in a human image as one would in a philtre, when the face represented a kind of absolute state of the flesh, which could be neither reached nor renounced.”
“Our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there is a gain. Sometimes we are so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift.”

Source : Debbie Macomber (2014). “Choir of Angels”, p.315, MIRA
“Love is wont to visit Man in the company of Desire; but Woman by himself.”
“The average 20-year-old serving us in Iraq knows more about their country's national security than the average 20-year political veteran serving in the Congress today.”
“I can't recreate that feeling of being naked, because we're all so used to seeing each other's ***** and ass-cracks that all that's going to give you is Cush dancing half-naked in a banana skirt.”

Source : Source: deadline.com
“You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.”
“This estrogen force field needs to dissipate... Move along. All of you. Now!”

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