"Any action that arises out of stress is of low quality, and it contributes to human suffering. You are making yourself and others suffer."

-- Eckhart Tolle

#Stress Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Quality Quotes

“Let us sing even when we do not feel like it, for in this way we give wings to heavy feet and turn weariness into strength.”
“You donâ€™t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You donâ€™t owe it to your mother, you donâ€™t owe it to your children, you donâ€™t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked â€˜femaleâ€™.”
“In the Islamic government all people have complete freedom to have any kind of opinion.”
“I walked all around it [the Guggenheim Bilbao] and couldn't find one clear, clean shot. To make things worse, the weather was lousy. Nothing about this rang commercial money shot. In a situation like this there's only one thing to do: forget about pleasing editors, please yourself.”
“Well, I'm an uncle now ... don't know if I'm a good one. My nephew asked me the difference between a hamster and a gerbil and I told him I thought there was more dark meat on a gerbil.”
“You are both a work of art and an artist at work.”
“Tomorrow is no man's gift.”
“In the particular presence of memorable language we can find a reminder of our ability to know and retain knowledge itself: the brightness wherein all things come to see.”

Source : Robert Pinsky (2014). “The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide”, p.116, Macmillan

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