"An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. And this is one of the big problems of life, that so many people never quite get to the point of rising above self. And so they end up the tragic victims of self-centeredness. They end up the victims of distorted and disrupted personality."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

#Inspiring Quotes #Self Quotes #People Quotes

“There are stars out there who would die to have this much exposure.”
“The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface: and why not? Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person's nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to heaven for the one that leads to hell.”

Source : Truman Capote (2007). “Other Voices, Other Rooms”, p.124, Vintage
“Blessing is not a technique we perform but a presence we embody. It is not an act we do to someone or something, but a relationship we form with them that enables us all to be embraced in the presence of an unobstructed world.”
“Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses.”
“My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a columnist before she became a stay-at-home mother.”
“Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.”
“The thing that a lot of people may or may not know is every artist is a cinephile, whether they watch movies whether they're painting, or have films that influence them.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not malum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent that what happened to the politician was in excess of what he deserved.”

Source : "Lone Star Planet". Book by H. Beam Piper, 1958.

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