"True peace of mind can be obtained only when one is personally awakened to the stark-naked fact that every effort is ultimately in vain."

-- Zenkei Shibayama

#Effort Quotes #Mind Quotes #Facts Quotes

“To get your name well enough known that you can run for a public office, some people do it by being great lawyers or philanthropists or business people or work their way up the political ladder. I happened to become known from a different route.”
“No matter what measures are taken, doctors will sometimes falter, and it isn't reasonable to ask that we achieve perfection. What is reasonable is to ask that we never cease to aim for it.”

Source : Atul Gawande (2010). “Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science”, p.74, Profile Books
“It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.”
“I like a person who knows how to say something dark at a very dark moment. The darker the moment and the darker the comic, the better. Something that is so wrong on all levels.”
“What the Chronics are - or most of us - are machines with flaws inside that can't be repaired, flaws born in, or flaws beat in over so many years of the guy running head-on into solid things that by the time the hospital found him he was bleeding rust in some vacant lot.”
“Lahore, the second largest city of Pakistan, ancient capital of the Punjab, home to nearly as many people as New York, layered like a sedimentary plain with the accreted history of invaders from the Aryans to the Mongols to the British.”
“But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.”
“The mission of the media is to reflect the community to itself, to give the people a vision of who they are, what they're doing, what they want, what they need. I think motion pictures have been an incredible gift to humanity. I can't imagine living in a world without them.”

Source : "From Elvis to Jesus: Mother Dolores Hart talks about her extraordinary journey from a blossoming career in Hollywood to something quite different". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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