"Little by little, one travels far"

-- J. R. R. Tolkien

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Wisdom Quotes

“Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don't think that's a good trend for the theater at all.”
“I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself.”
“You do not mean by mystery what a Catholic does. You mean an interesting uncertainty: the uncertainty ceasing interest ceases also.... But a Catholic by mystery means an incomprehensible certainty: without certainty, without formulation there is no interest;... the clearer the formulation the greater the interest.”
“I learned that you have to evaluate the effects of public policy as opposed to intentions.”
“â€ŽAll my stupid little thoughts beget stupid little thoughts, rampantly speculating every possible outcome of every possible situation until they're all done to death and none of them could ever be true.”
“Ledisi means to come here, to bring forth. Itâ€™s a Nigerian word and itâ€™s from the Yorubu culture, I believe, and my parents named me, my dad and my mom, and really my dad, and I had no choice in that. Thatâ€™s my real name and thatâ€™s what it means.”

Source : Jazz Monthly Interview, www.jazzmonthly.com.
“In Asian languages, the word for 'mind' and the word for 'heart' are same. So if you're not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you're not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.”

Source : "Q&A: Jon Kabat-Zinn Talks About Bringing Mindfulness Meditation to Medicine". Interview With Maia Szalavitz, healthland.time.com. January 11, 2012.
“The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.”

Source : "The Last Years of a Rebel : A Memoir of Edith Sitwell". Book by Elizabeth Salter, 1967.

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