"You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessings."

-- Andrew Jackson

#Blessing Quotes #Addiction Quotes #Wish Quotes

“We all start out with no discipline, no patience, no perseverance, no determination. We all start out at zero. People say, 'You have talent.' No, the gift is to realize that we all start out even. Whether we messed up or put our best foot forward, with these four qualities, we take care of our mental, physical and spiritual health each day. Am I the best in the world? No. The question is: Am I the best I can be?”
“With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one look at the trade deficit changes all of that.”
“Britney and I wore matching denim outfits [to the 2001 American Music Awards]. Yeah, another bad choice. Iâ€™d probably pay good money to get some of those pictures off the internet.”
“The object is freedom.”

Source : Anne Bogart (2003). “A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art and Theatre”, p.72, Routledge
“An animal is not cruel; it lives wholly in the instant leap on its prey, in the present taste of marrow or blood. Cruelty begins with the memory, and the pleasures of the memory are impure; they draw their strength along levels where no sun has reached.”
“I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings”
“His (Lloyd Kaufman) string of low-budget, lowbrow horror comedies stretching back to the â€™80s has been cited as influence by Peter Jackson, the Farrelly Brothers, Quentin Tarantino, Takashi Miike, and Guillermo Del Toro, just to cite a few prominent examples.”
“The criterion for what is good is based on whether it relieves someone, brings joy, or soothes a distress.”

Source : Bert Hellinger, Gabriele Ten Hövel (1999). “Acknowledging what is: Conversations with Bert Hellinger”, p.162, Zeig Tucker & Theisen Publishers

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