"Ash Wednesday is full of joy...The source of all sorrow is the illusion that of ourselves we are anything but dust."

-- Thomas Merton

#Dust Quotes #Joy Quotes #Sorrow Quotes

“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.”

Source : Simone de Beauvoir (1975). “The Coming of Age”
“later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.”
“I know when I've been playing a lot of golf it takes me a while to get back into cricket again. It's not so much the different shape of the swings, more the fact that you are stationary when you hit a golf ball. In cricket you have to move forward or back, which is an instinctive timing thing.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm gonna be unemployed when people read this. Ha.”
“Writing can be a lonely business. But gradually your characters, or the scenes and peopl from your past, begin to rise up around you, and you find yourself writing your way out of loneliness, writing into your own company.”

Source : Barbara Abercrombie (2012). “A Year of Writing Dangerously: 365 Days of Inspiration and Encouragement”, p.117, New World Library
“Never compare yourself to beautiful girls.”
“There is no doubt in my mind and I know in my time, there will be a Canadian basketball player playing for Toronto Raptors, 100%”
“I would sooner be robbed by a fan than a company. The fan may be broke and have but one choice. There is no excuse for the way the "songwriter" is robbed by everyone from the record company to the broadcaster, by the pure bottom line, greed. If it continues, sadly, in time, the music will suffer. It takes many many years to learn how to write a song properly. Songwriters will be forced to hit the road in order to make a decent living and, in my opinion, these two careers are related but not compatible.”

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