"I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about"

-- Jung Chang

#Past Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“There's the movie you write, there's the movie you shoot and the movie you edit, and often, you find that you're getting the same information out of a scene that you already have and a scene that's actually more powerful, so you have to make the tough decision to take it out.”
“Buddhism regards all living creatures as being endowed with the Buddha nature and the potential to become Buddhas. That's why Buddhism teaches us to refrain from killing and to liberate creatures instead.”
“I know it's not fair to ask you to be with me when we can't even sleep in the same bed, but I'll love you better than anyone else could. I'll take care of you and make you happy. I know I can.”

Source : Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.696, Penguin
“Love attacks. It sneaks up like a pride of lions or a pack of hyenas and eats your heart out while you watch. Love is the bully on the playground who takes your lunch money and gives you a black eye in return, the arsonist who burns your house down with you in it, the witch who lures you into her home with candy and boils you alive for dinner. Love is raw, and violent, and instantaneous. You donâ€™t fall in love; you get trampled by it.”

Source : Bart Yates (2006). “The Brothers Bishop”, p.210, Kensington Books
“I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.”
“Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a window on the world.”
“We all compromise ourselves, from time to time, because maybe it will lead to more opportunity...A ll of thatâ€™s cool, but we forget and we get caught up. If you want that nurturing, caring, empathetic, compassionate heart to keep on ticking and be around, and you want it to be strong, then donâ€™t neglect #1. One way to feed it is just being truthful and listening to your heart.”
“Our salvation never comes in the form we would have chosen.”

Source : John L'Heureux (1992). “The shrine at Altamira”, Viking Pr

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