"A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles - whose needs are never satisfied and desires never fulfilled - is vulnerable to manipulation and regimentation. The struggle for survival is, above all, an exercise that is hugely time-consuming, absorbing and debilitating. If you create these ''anti-conditions,'' your rule is guaranteed for a hundred years."

-- Ryszard Kapuscinski

#Struggle Quotes #Exercise Quotes #Years Quotes

“Live simply and without thinking too much, like a child with his father. Faith without too much thinking works wonders. The logical mind hinders the Grace of God and miracles. Practice patience without judging with the logical mind.”
“And she looks at me with her eyes open wide and a face that says: Oh my God, I'm muckin' around in my sexy Jesus-boots, in my crazy dreamworld, and I've opened the door and let you in on my crazy dreamworld and that's so embarrassing but, actually, who cares? because it's funny.”

Source : Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “The Ghosts Of Ashbury High”, p.2, Scholastic Inc.
“I had the hardest time not crying, the entire time that I was filming.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space.”
“I've had more than 12,000 emails from the United States. It's not easy in the United States to find out the email address of a British parliamentarian.”
“A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn every artist in town, which is not. He may do you that honour.”
“This day, my God, I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done Thee wrong. To have grieved my God is the worst grief to me.”
“You know I ain't never prayed before 'Cause it always seemed to me That prayin's the same as beggin' Lord, I don't take no charity.”

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