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George Bernard Shaw
"People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them." --
Source : George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2917, e-artnow
George Bernard Shaw
#Stress Quotes
#People Quotes
#Worry Quotes
“My acting ability would have sent me back to the post office. It was my singing that got me jobs. Ironically, now, people think of me as an actor and don't know me much as a singer.”
“You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.”
“Evolution occurs in the world of time and space and form, whereas Spirit's primordial nature is finally timeless and Formless, prior to the of evolution but not other to it. We do not find Spirit or Emptiness by reaching some evolutionary Omega point in time, but rather by stepping off the cycle of time and evolution altogether (or ceasing to contract into it).”
“The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.”
Source : 25 Years vol. 2, ch. 18 (1925)
“Do not delay in coming to grace, but hasten, lest the robber outstrip you, lest the adulterer pass you by, lest the insatiate be satisfied before you, lest the murderer seize the blessing first, or the publican or the fornicator, or any of these violent ones who take the Kingdom of heaven by force (cf. Mt. 11:12). For it suffers violence willingly, and is tyrannized over through goodness.”
“I left my record label, Polydor, by mutual agreement, but I'm going to carry on with my singing career.”
“To offend is my pleasure; I love to be hated.”
“I am extremely interested in how people negotiate catastrophe, not because I'm morbidly interested in it but because I'm interested in the secret of resilience; that's what I'm always exploring in the stories and the novels.”
