"What makes the temptation of power so seemingly irresistible? Maybe it is that power offers an easy substitute for the hard task of love. It seems easier to be God than to love God, easier to control people than to love people, easier to own life than to love life."

-- Henri Nouwen

#Love Life Quotes #People Quotes #Temptation Quotes

“The important thing, once you have enough to eat and a nice house, is what you can do for others, what you can contribute to the enterprise as a whole.”
“The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.”
“I'm strong because I know my weaknesses. I'm wise because I've been foolish. I laugh because I've known sadness.”
“I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'”
“I do small cameos here and there but nothing that requires more than a paragraph of talking, because I'm just an amateur. The movie is a whole different reality.”
“Nobody in TV makes as much money as Robert Redford, who likes to make movies for several million dollars only on the condition that they contain some sort of social message. I cannot take very seriously a social message delivered by an actor who is paid nine million dollars to deliver it, and who charges you five dollars to see it.”
“There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.”
“Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it's also necessary and important.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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