"At times our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much we may have to pay for it afterwards."

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E. M. Forster

#Needs Quotes #Care Quotes #May Quotes

“God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives--DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.”
“We shall be less apt to admire what this World calls Great, shall nobly despise those Trifles the generality of Men set their Affections on, when we know that there are a multitude of such Earths inhabited and adorned as Well as our own.”

Source : Christiaan Huygens (1722). “The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, Or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets”, p.13
“The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.”
“Wait, Saturday night?" The ladder-backed chair creaked and I looked up as he leaned forward to eye me in growing suspicion. "I thought you stayed home." I shrugged and raised one eyebrow at him. "I thought I was human.”
“You can always control the results. You can always control your attitude and effort every day.”
“My notion of art is very maximalist and souped-up: I love spectacle, overload, magic materials, magic words, incantation and litany, incarnation and possession, spilling and wounds. Art as a sacred event.”

Source : "'Art as a sacred event'". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. April 7, 2015.
“I was never OJ's closest pal, and the media would say that over and over, but I wasn't his enemy either.”
“I like jewelry. Big rings, big necklaces. Shoes, belts, luggage.”

Source : "Skyler Shaye and Janel Parrish Worship at the Alter of the Bratz!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. July 24, 2007.

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