"Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in."

-- Theodore Parker

#Sacrifice Quotes #Laughing Quotes #Desire Quotes

“All Taleban are moderate. There are two things: extremism ["ifraat", or doing something to excess] and conservatism ["tafreet", or doing something insufficiently]. So in that sense, we are all moderates - taking the middle path.”
“...Almost everything inside was filled with sugar, cheese, and weight-loss tips.”
“I never meant to push or shove you. Do you know how much I love you?”

Source : Song: Past The Point Of Rescue, Album: Past the Point of Rescue, 1991
“The Writer's Oath I promise solemnly: 1. to write as often and as much as I can, 2. to respect my writing self, and 3. to nurture the writing of others. I accept these responsibilities and shall honor them always.”
“I long to escape the prison of my ego and lose myself in You.”
“Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them than the sound that comes out of all this speculation.”
“Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.”

Source : "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.
“The word 'ego' is very important. The ego is an important element of being human, and of being creative. We need that ego in order to give us a confidence of doing what we're doing. Ego pushes us into the creative world in order to create for something more. I think that a great company of actors, they all have egos, very strong egos, but they're all prepared to share together in order to achieve something even better than that.”

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